flood
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1.0
- noun
- /flʌd/
:
inundación
- The victims of the Yellow River floods in China sometimes amount to hundreds of thousands.
- flood insurance
- flood control
- flood damage
Like this road was washed away in a flood two years ago.
- Like this road was washed away in a flood two years ago.
- That ice melting has to create giant floods, right?
- It surpasses all Arkansas River flooding in our recorded history.
- One was acts of nature in the form of droughts, floods and pandemics.
- And when the storms come and the floods come, the house is swept away.
- Oftentimes, Realtors do not know that there's flood zones on property.
- And while we were gone, there was continuing plague, war, floods, fires.
- And and that's similar to a flood, but it's different.
Examples
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Georgia had some devastating floods this year.
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Like this road was washed away in a flood two years ago.
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A great flood is coming.
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Meanwhile, when the flood hit, dirty flood water came through her house.
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And then the rain keeps coming and the flood is rising.
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So much water in my basement from that flood that the whole house is gonna have mold in it.
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Again and again sweeping floods have burst the banks.
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The flood, which swept down Big Thompson Canyon in Colorado, was the worst since records began.
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Few, however, expected a major flood that devastated more than 4,100 houses in the community of 41,000.
Academic text (2013) -
The flood of rainwater caused the nearby river to overflow its banks.
Synonyms
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2.1
A large amount of water covering land that is usually dry
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3.7
A sudden rise of water that covers land after heavy rain
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6.3
A very heavy rain that causes flooding
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7.7
Flooding of land when water covers areas that are normally dry
Land or place that becomes filled with water after heavy rain
The covering of dry land by water when a river or sea rises
A sudden large flow of water that floods land
A sudden flood that happens very quickly after heavy rain
Antonyms
Compounds
- Literature
41
8.2
A great covering of water God sent in the Bible to destroy life, saving Noah and animals in an ark
- Literature
2
6.5
A great flood sent by God in the Bible story of Noah that destroys the world because people are wicked
- Jargon
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9.9
A dangerous alien life form in the Halo games that infects and changes other living beings
- Literature
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7.1
A Bible story of a great flood sent by God that Noah survives with his family in a large boat
A very large number of applications for a job or school sent at the same time
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Flood comes from an old English word flod meaning 'river' or 'flow', the same idea you see in the word flow. So a flood is when water flows over the land and covers places that are usually dry.