2020-08-12

[soraliu]

flood
/fləd/

verb
    cover or submerge (a place or area) with water.
        - "watching her father flood their backyard skating rink"
    Synonyms: inundate, swamp, deluge, immerse, submerge, drown, engulf

    arrive in overwhelming amounts or quantities.
        - "his old fears came flooding back"
    Synonyms: pour, stream, surge, swarm, pile, crowd, throng

noun
    an overflowing of a large amount of water beyond its normal confines, especially over what is normally dry land.
        - "people uprooted by drought or flood"
    Synonyms: inundation, swamping, deluge, torrent, overflow, flash flood, freshet, downpour, cloudburst, spate

    an outpouring of tears or emotion.
        - "Rose burst into such a flood of tears and sobs as I had never seen"
    Synonyms: outpouring, torrent, rush, stream, gush, surge, cascade, flow

    short for floodlight.

Synonyms
    verb
        - inundate, swamp, deluge, immerse, submerge, drown, engulf
        - pour, stream, surge, swarm, pile, crowd, throng
        - overbrim, disembogue
        - glut, swamp, saturate, oversupply, overfill, overload, overwhelm
        - overflow, burst its banks, brim over, run over

    noun
        - succession, series, string, chain, barrage, volley, battery, avalanche, torrent, stream, tide, spate, storm, shower, cascade, wave, rush, outpouring
        - inundation, swamping, deluge, torrent, overflow, flash flood, freshet, downpour, cloudburst, spate
        - outpouring, torrent, rush, stream, gush, surge, cascade, flow

Examples
    - Rose burst into such a flood of tears and sobs as I had never seen

    - a constant flood of callers

    - a flood barrier

    - in a thousand miles the flood destroyed every bridge

    - the river will flood if it gets much worse

    - people uprooted by drought or flood

    - watching her father flood their backyard skating rink