widespread flooding
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- noun
- /ˈwaɪdˌsprɛd ˈflʌdɪŋ/
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inundación generalizada
- Widespread flooding was also reported in oceanfront areas like Cape May, Wildwood, and Long Beach Island.
- caused widespread flooding
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On Long Island, there was widespread flooding, and hundreds of thousands of customers were without power on Tuesday.
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There, unprecedented rainfall caused widespread flooding, wreaking havoc and submerging sections of my hometown.
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There were images of widespread flooding throughout the town.
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There was widespread flooding and destruction there, and more than 50 people were killed.
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Fortunately, though there was widespread flooding, we were able to go nearly everywhere we planned.
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The drenching caused widespread flooding.
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In 1999, Hurricane Floyd caused widespread flooding that put much of eastern North Carolina under several feet of water.
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They were saying this was a monster storm that would bring widespread flooding, power outages, and devastation.
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Hurricane Sandy, dubbed the Frankenstorm and linked widely to climate change in the U.S. media, has brought widespread flooding and sizeable economic losses.
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Heavy rains have caused widespread flooding and prompted evacuations across the region.
Synonyms
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A large amount of water that covers land that is usually dry
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A large amount of water covering land that is usually dry
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A very heavy rain that causes flooding
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Flooding of land when water covers areas that are normally dry
A sudden large flow of water that floods land
Antonyms
How Extensive
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is fully compositional: 'widespread' means occurring in many places and 'flooding' means inundation, so a learner who knows both words can infer flooding over a large area. This is a standard, cross-linguistically common modifier+noun combination and follows normal English composition patterns, making it readily understandable to a B1 learner.
Etymology
Widespread flooding paints a simple picture: water from a river or heavy rain spreads out like a blanket across many fields and houses. So widespread means over a 'large area' and flooding is water covering the land, which is why the phrase means 'flooding that affects a large area'.