to flooded with
27
3.5
- phrasal verb
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- Well, our newsroom has been flooded with calls tonight...
- flooded with calls
- market flooded with
Like Mexico is flooded with with guns, like they're all over.
- Like Mexico is flooded with with guns, like they're all over.
- It's just I'm, I'm like flooded with everything fun and funny.
- And when I woke up that morning, I was flooded with all kinds of uncomfortable thoughts.
- And what happened is I got flooded with these stories.
- And since we have started this podcast, I have been flooded with questions.
- So we're flooded with choices in in this day and age.
- And so coming home, I feel like we were just kind of flooded with the fruits of our labor, which we hadn't seen yet.
- So from having been this shy person in never been out, I was flooded with this exuberance and confidence.
- UK Chip shop chips are probably the best chips ever when they're flooded with salt and vinegar as well and it's so acceptable to do so.
- The next day we get flooded with comments from really stupid people who we love saying please come to Toronto.
Examples
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And since we have started this podcast, I have been flooded with questions.
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When I woke up the next morning, my inbox was flooded with responses from around the world.
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And what happened is I got flooded with these stories.
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The small station was flooded with calls about what will happen tomorrow.
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So we're flooded with choices in in this day and age.
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And I get flooded with ideas when I'm in that state.
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The university was flooded with calls from alumni and the general public.
Academic text (1995) -
Its office is typically flooded with phone calls after each broadcast, overwhelming the capacity of its small staff.
Academic text (1999) -
The country was then flooded with millions of ethnic Germans displaced from territories to the east.
Academic text (2003) -
Our team was flooded with emails after we announced the sale.
Synonyms
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1.0
Containing a lot of something, like tears or facts
135
3.5
Be unable to cope with a large amount of something, for example work
127
2.1
To fill a place with more things than it can handle
70
2.5
Full of many people or things
68
4.0
To flood an area with water or to overwhelm with a large amount of something
40
6.8
To cover a place with water or give someone too much to deal with
16
4.1
Filled with a large amount of something
15
2.9
Full of a lot of something, often too much
14
3.7
Very full and crowded with almost no space
5
7.4
To give someone so much work or so many requests that they cannot cope
3
3.9
To put too much into something so it spills out
1
4.4
You have too much work and not enough time
1
4.1
To make a place too full by putting too many people or things in it
1
7.6
Completely full with no space left
1
5.2
So full that it almost overflows
1
3.8
Full to the top with something, often a feeling
To give someone more work than they can do
Having more of something than people need or can buy
So full that water spills out and covers the area around it
Very full after a large meal or in a crowded place
Full of something that takes up most of it
Antonyms
How Overwhelmed
5
7.4
- Informal
1
4.4
27
3.5
70
2.5
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'filled or overwhelmed by a large quantity' is directly and predictably derived from 'flood' (to fill or saturate) combined with the preposition 'with' indicating what fills or accompanies. The metaphor of flooding to mean being overwhelmed is common and follows a transparent compositional pattern that a B1 learner who knows the constituent words will readily understand.
Etymology
Flooded with comes from the picture of water pouring into a room; when water floods a house everything is covered and hard to handle. That's why flooded with means 'filled or overwhelmed by' a large number of things, like messages or people.