to flood
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2.1
- verb
- /flʌd/
- The heavy rain flooded the streets, making it difficult for cars to pass.
- flood the market
- be flooded with calls
- be flooded with information
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Watch on YouTubeBut the DIY approach is just flooded with all these types of comments.
- But the DIY approach is just flooded with all these types of comments.
- And what happened was that the marketplaces started flooding with goods from the mainland.
- They really so they're not just flooding the system.
- Don't get carried away by the external impression we have flooding towards us all the time.
- If they start thinking that, then all those dollars come flooding back.
- I mean that the shoddy kind of stuff that floods the market.
- Make a decision, flood yourself with certainty and take massive action.
- Let me run through some phrases that kind of surround you or flood around you.
- Letters, Diaries, photographs, official military documents and personal memoirs quickly flooded Dubois's office.
- And you said that within this experience, within six weeks, lifetimes of memory flooded your very being.
- The hot reserves of her anger against him flooded over, and strength like wine boiled up through her body.
- Maybe you've taken some steps, but then they send you a text out of nowhere and all the feelings come flooding back.
- They say, oh, we can't control it, so we're going to flood it.
Examples
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The company flooded its social media channels with advertisements for the new product.
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Investment began to flood into the district, at first in the form of Italian restaurants.
Academic text (2008) -
We're flooded with calls right now.
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And this type of monetary policy floods the system with cash.
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They're going to flood this area with troops now.
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As she found her way back to surfing, she was flooded with letters thanking her for being an inspiration.
Academic text (2011) -
Letters, Diaries, photographs, official military documents and personal memoirs quickly flooded Dubois's office.
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After the announcement, fans flooded the stadium to celebrate the team's victory.
Synonyms
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4.0
To flood an area with water or to overwhelm with a large amount of something
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6.8
To cover a place with water or give someone too much to deal with
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5.2
Make something so full of liquid or color that it can take no more
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3.9
To put too much into something so it spills out
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6.0
To cover an area with water
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5.3
To sell so many of a product that people stop buying more unless prices fall
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7.0
To fill a market with too much of a product so it becomes unwanted
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4.1
To give more of something than people can use
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6.5
Fill a market or area with too much of something so people lose interest
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
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3.5
A very large number of applications for a job or school sent at the same time
How Full
Surface Forms
Etymology
Flood meaning to fill or supply too much uses the water picture again: things 'flow in' like water and cover a place. So to flood a market or inbox is to send in so much that it becomes too full to handle.