flood

noun

1. the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land

Similar word(s): alluvion, deluge, inundation

Definition categories: phenomenon

2. an overwhelming number or amount

- a flood of requests

Similar word(s): deluge, inundation, torrent

Definition categories: quantity, batch, deal, flock, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, wad

3. light that is a source of artificial illumination having a broad beam; used in photography

Similar word(s): floodlight, photoflood

Definition categories: man–made, light

4. a large flow

Similar word(s): outpouring, overflow

Definition categories: act, flow, stream

5. the act of flooding; filling to overflowing

Similar word(s): flowage

Definition categories: act, filling

6. the occurrence of incoming water (between a low tide and the following high tide)

- a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune

Definition categories: event, tide

verb

1. fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid

- The images flooded his mind

Similar word(s): deluge, inundate, swamp

Definition categories: contact, fill

2. cover with liquid, usually water

- The swollen river flooded the village

- The broken vein had flooded blood in her eyes

Definition categories: change, cover

3. supply with an excess of

- flood the market with tennis shoes

Similar word(s): glut, oversupply

Definition categories: possession, furnish, provide, render, supply

4. become filled to overflowing

- Our basement flooded during the heavy rains

Definition categories: change, fill