FLOOD
\flˈʌd], \flˈʌd], \f_l_ˈʌ_d]\
Definitions of FLOOD
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid; "the basement was inundated after the storm"; "The images flooded his mind"
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supply with an excess of; "flood the market with tennis shoes"; "Glut the country with cheap imports from the Orient"
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light that is a source of artificial illumination having a broad beam; used in photography
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the inward flow of the tide; "a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune" -Shakespeare
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cover with liquid, usually water; "The swollen river flooded the village"; "The broken vein had flooded blood in her eyes"
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become filled to overflowing; "Our basement flooded during the heavy rains"
By Princeton University
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fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid; "the basement was inundated after the storm"; "The images flooded his mind"
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supply with an excess of; "flood the market with tennis shoes"; "Glut the country with cheap imports from the Orient"
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light that is a source of artificial illumination having a broad beam; used in photography
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the inward flow of the tide; "a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune" -Shakespeare
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cover with liquid, usually water; "The swollen river flooded the village"; "The broken vein had flooded blood in her eyes"
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become filled to overflowing; "Our basement flooded during the heavy rains"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A great flow of water; a body of moving water; the flowing stream, as of a river; especially, a body of water, rising, swelling, and overflowing land not usually thus covered; a deluge; a freshet; an inundation.
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A great flow or stream of any fluid substance; as, a flood of light; a flood of lava; hence, a great quantity widely diffused; an overflowing; a superabundance; as, a flood of bank notes; a flood of paper currency.
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Menstrual disharge; menses.
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To overflow; to inundate; to deluge; as, the swollen river flooded the valley.
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To cause or permit to be inundated; to fill or cover with water or other fluid; as, to flood arable land for irrigation; to fill to excess or to its full capacity; as, to flood a country with a depreciated currency.
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The flowing in of the tide; the semidiurnal swell or rise of water in the ocean; - opposed to ebb; as, young flood; high flood.
By Oddity Software
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A great flow of water; a body of moving water; the flowing stream, as of a river; especially, a body of water, rising, swelling, and overflowing land not usually thus covered; a deluge; a freshet; an inundation.
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A great flow or stream of any fluid substance; as, a flood of light; a flood of lava; hence, a great quantity widely diffused; an overflowing; a superabundance; as, a flood of bank notes; a flood of paper currency.
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Menstrual disharge; menses.
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To overflow; to inundate; to deluge; as, the swollen river flooded the valley.
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To cause or permit to be inundated; to fill or cover with water or other fluid; as, to flood arable land for irrigation; to fill to excess or to its full capacity; as, to flood a country with a depreciated currency.
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The flowing in of the tide; the semidiurnal swell or rise of water in the ocean; - opposed to ebb; as, young flood; high flood.
By Noah Webster.
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Sudden calamitous events producing great material damage, loss, and distress. They are the result of natural phenomena such as earthquakes, floods, etc.
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A great flow of water; inundation; high tide; the sea; an abundant supply or outpouring of anything: the Flood, the Deluge described in Genesis vii.
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To deluge; inundate; overflow.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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1. To bleed profusely from the uterus, as after childbirth or in cases of menorrhagia. 2. A profuse menstrual discharge.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
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A great flow of water; a river, so in B.; an inundation; a deluge; the rise or flow of the tide; any great quantity.
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To overflow; to inundate; -pr.p. flooding; pa.p. flooded.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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To rise to or be at the flood; overflow.
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A freshet; inundation; deluge.
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The tide at its heights; high tide.
By James Champlin Fernald
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A body of water rising, swelling, and overflowing land not usually covered with water; the Deluge which inundated the earth in the days of Noah; the flowing of the tide; an inundation; a superabundant quantity; menstrual discharge.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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A great flow of water; a body of water overflowing land, as from a river; abundance.
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To deluge; to overflow.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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n. [Anglo-Saxon, Icelandic] A body of moving water; especially, a body of water overflowing land not usually thus covered; an inundation;—specifically, the Noachian deluge;—the flowing in of the tide—opposed to ebb;—abundance; superabundance;—a great body or stream of any fluid substance, as of light, &c.:—menstrual discharge.
