to flood
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1.0
- verb
- /flʌd/
- And so the water flooded the basement.
- flood the area
- the river flooded
- flood the land
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- Please don't flood or we're done, right?
- If there's if the storm God Adad floods the land don't have to pay.
- He had knocked the water pump head off, he had flooded all the irrigation fields.
- So what they realize is that they can flood and burn them out.
- And then when it rains and floods, you know, you're just, you're, you're fucked.
- It's turning into a stream and it's, you know, starting to flood my office.
- Water could still come through, though it's not going to flood quickly.
- And so the water flooded the basement.
- But what it is, is when the brain is overwhelmed or flooded.
- As evidence comes in, as reality floods our brain, we select what we want to see.
- And I sat in the truck and just kind of memories just flooded back.
- Instead it's just bam, there it is and it sort of floods you.
Examples
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- Look, it's flooding.
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My brother's room is flooded.
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It's turning into a stream and it's, you know, starting to flood my office.
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And when houses flood, we build big walls and we send water elsewhere.
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The survivors flood back down the road to safety.
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The building flooded a few years later.
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Big waves came up and flooded the whole city.
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The whole place is flooded.
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At the request of refuge officials, the US Army Corps of Engineers floods the area year-round.
Academic text (1994) -
Heavy rain caused the river to flood the nearby fields, covering them in water.
Synonyms
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4.0
To flood an area with water or to overwhelm with a large amount of something
35
6.8
To cover a place with water or give someone too much to deal with
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6.0
To cover an area with water
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6.4
To flow over land or a barrier, covering it with water
To fill an area with water or inject water underground to push out oil
Antonyms
Phrasal Verbs
- Jargon
1
7.7
To send many messages quickly and make it hard for others to read or join
Compounds
- Literature
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8.2
A great covering of water God sent in the Bible to destroy life, saving Noah and animals in an ark
- Literature
4
6.5
A great flood sent by God in the Bible story of Noah that destroys the world because people are wicked
- Literature
1
7.1
A Bible story of a great flood sent by God that Noah survives with his family in a large boat
- Jargon
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9.9
A dangerous alien life form in the Halo games that infects and changes other living beings
1
3.5
A very large number of applications for a job or school sent at the same time
How Flooded
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35
6.8
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2.7
Surface Forms
Etymology
Flood as a verb comes from the same idea of water 'flowing' from the noun flod, so to flood a room is to let water flow into it and cover the floor. That is why we say a house or street was flooded when water fills it.