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flood English

Meaning flood meaning

What does flood mean?
Definitions in simple English

flood Noun

— A flood happens when there has been a lot of rain in a short time and the water covers the ground. The storm brought heavy rains, and the resulting flood caused $14 million in damage to crops.

flood Verb

— If a place is flooded, the water covers the ground and often causes a lot of damage. In 2005, a hurricane brought so much rain that much of Louisiana was flooded, killing many people, and destroying large parts of the city. — To flood means to overwhelm. The market has been flooded with boy band recordings. Stop flooding the editorial office with your complaints.

flood

— verb (= inundate) fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid the basement was inundated after the storm The images flooded his mind — noun (= inundation) the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land plains fertilized by annual inundations — verb cover with liquid, usually water The swollen river flooded the village The broken vein had flooded blood in her eyes — noun (= torrent) an overwhelming number or amount a flood of requests a torrent of abuse — noun a large flow — noun light that is a source of artificial illumination having a broad beam; used in photography — noun the act of flooding; filling to overflowing — verb become filled to overflowing Our basement flooded during the heavy rains — verb (= glut) supply with an excess of flood the market with tennis shoes Glut the country with cheap imports from the Orient — noun 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 — Shakespeare

Synonyms flood synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as flood?

flood English » English

overflow deluge inundation inundate flow swamp high water torrent submerge stream alluvion surge overwhelm freshet spate high tide flood tide fill rising tide overflowing gush water rush pour irrigate engulf cover avalanche river photoflood outpouring landslide flowing water flowage flow over floodwater floodlight flooding flood lamp drown drench cataclysm brim over whelm tide spread soak shower sea plenty

Topics flood topics

What do people use flood to talk about?
Universe, creation Water Bodies of water

River
Universe, creation Sky Weather

Flood
Universe, creation Water Movement of water

Flow
Universe, creation Water

Wet
Physical actions Move Accompany

Move together
Physical actions Arrange Put

Fill, cover
States Quantity

Full
Work and occupation Occupation Working with water

Controlling water
States Quantity Plural

Many, much

Conjugation flood conjugation

How do you conjugate flood?

flood · verb

Examples flood examples

How do I use flood in a sentence?

Simple sentences

We provided the flood victims with food and clothing.
Tom's house was damaged by the flood.
Tom lives in a flood zone, but he doesn't have flood insurance.
The bridge was washed away by the flood.
Several houses were carried away by the great flood.
The house was carried away by the flood.
A lot of houses were washed away by the flood.
The village was isolated by the flood.
The flood was the greatest disaster they had ever had.
The house was undermined by the flood.
The flood prevented me from crossing the river.
Damages from the flood amount to ten million dollars.
The typhoon caused the river to flood.
The heavy rain brought the flood, causing damage.
The bank secured the city from a flood.
Our streets flood when it rains.
The bridge was carried away by the flood.
Low-lying lands will flood. This means that people will be left homeless and their crops will be destroyed by the salt water.
The flood did a lot of harm to the crops.
The flood did a lot of damage to the village.
The flood did great damage to the crops.
Three persons are missing with the flood.
The bridge gave way because of the flood.
The flood parted them.
The damage from the flood was negligible.

Movie subtitles

The two graves are ready - if the Yukon doesn't flood them.
The flood's rising.
What if we flood the room with water?
A steady flood of pennies, nickels and dimes drained from the purses of the homeowner, the laborer and the housewife.
What you probably feel is the melancholy of happiness that mood that comes over all of us when we realize that even love can't remain at flood tide forever.
Wood alcohol is recooked, and the product of this loose and ineffective process is put on the market in a constantly swelling flood.
Fire, or flood, or what?
But it's had more publicity than the Johnstown flood.
You said it. When those 8- foot torpedoes hit the Gatun Locks itll make the Johnstown flood look like something that happened in a bathroom.
Close negative flood.
Negative flood closed, sir.
Negative flood closed.
And even if there's a second Flood, this house shall always stand on solid foundations.
Never was such a sudden scholar made, never came reformation in a flood as in this king.
The rains will just flood us rotten if those drain ditches aren't finished.
No matter what happens tonight-fire or flood- I'm gonna have that man fired tomorrow.
There was an attempt to force the expedition to return, making use of political intrigues and a sheer flood of defamation.
Evidently the force of the flood had burst through that wall and. washed everything into the cave beyond.
And with those plates a gang of crooks could flood England with five-pound notes, not forged in the usual sense of the word but notes undetectable from genuine Bank of England notes - in any way whatsoever.
All that's missing is the flood.
Fat chance. All them schmoes think about is coal strikes, flood control, United Nations.
What if it tempt you toward the flood, my lord?
Flotsam floating on the flood tide of profits.
So I pray you save them from flood and bring prosperity.
The circus trains, like Noah's Ark, will carry and shelter man and beast through flood and mud and heat and storm, through triumph and adversity.
A flood from the west is approaching That dissolves the bonds of family. And the sons no longer bow To their fathers.
A baby born dead, a young husband killed by a falling tree, a flood that covers your fields and makes you go hungry for a year.
The flood's coming.
Steely found them after the flood.
For never two such kingdoms did contend without much fall of flood, whose guiltless drops do make such waste in brief mortality.
You got a flood or did you strike oil or something?
We have not got a flood.
Anybody can have a flood.
Cut it, Peppino, you're worse than the flood.
If you fix the houses in the flooded zone, making them habitable, why should it be hard, once the flood is over, to get the people to leave the buildings?
Oh, I'm perfectly aware of the necessities that have advised you to settle the flood victims in the buildings. And I've given proof!
All them schmoes think about is coal strikes, flood control, United Nations.

News and current affairs

A growing flood of data shows that death rates in many poor countries are falling sharply, and that aid-supported programs for health-care delivery have played a key role.
As EU enlargement approaches, people across Western Europe fear a flood of job-seeking immigrants from the postcommunist accession countries.
In the US, most people still do not have flood or earthquake insurance.
Otherwise, people will build on flood plains in the belief that their government, or the governments of the world, will feel obligated to bail them out, thereby insuring, in effect, bad risks that should not be taken.
Almost immediately, a flood of fresh genetic information overwhelmed the existing protein sequence database.
The ongoing violence in Africa's Great Lakes region, which has claimed millions of civilian lives, is rooted in the 1994 Rwanda genocide and the resulting flood of Hutu refugees into neighboring states.
Many people who survive an earthquake or a flood, for instance, may soon face another crisis if the disaster also destroys their only means of earning a living.
Allowing for changes in the number of people and their wealth, flood losses have actually decreased slightly.
In some cases, insurance companies argued that houses were damaged by flood, not wind, which their policies cover more generously.
Not unreasonably, President George W. Bush wants government grants to bail out only the approximately 20,000 homeowners who can't be faulted for failing to buy flood insurance, because they lived outside the designated flood plains.
In contrast, only Saudi Arabia can flood the market and reduce prices far below their current level.
The turning point in the US came in 1998, when a federal court decision upheld a patent on an accounting system, which launched a flood of business-method patents--over a thousand a year in 1999 and 2000.
In Syria, for example, it is not: Although politicians and commentators talk about stemming the flood at the source, no peace plan is in sight.
But trade in illegal narcotics did not seriously threaten Mexico's stability or provoke conflict with the United States until the mid-1980's, when Colombian cocaine began to flood across Mexico to the US.
In the US, the National Flood Insurance Program of 1968 made it mandatory for those financing construction or improvement of structures within Special Flood Hazard Areas to buy flood insurance.
If a clean start is impossible, the best that can be done is to try to bury the old information with such an inflationary flood of new data that it simply dwindles into insignificance.
The second item on the agenda is a pull-back from quantitative easing in the US, which is subjecting the emerging economies to a flood of capital, rising commodity prices, inflation, and asset bubbles.
A pandemic, flood, or cyber attack in the City of London or Wall Street could send the entire world into a financial tailspin.
On the preventive front, countless lives can be saved by simple actions such as flood-proofing coastlines, or strengthening earthquake codes for hospitals and schools.
The Army Corps of Engineers' budget for levee construction in New Orleans was gutted, including funds specifically aimed at the Southeast Louisiana Urban Flood Control Project.
While hardly denting global trade imbalances, a small move would bring in a flood of foreign capital, overwhelming China's currency defenses and leading to chaos.
D'Estaing was incensed that the US seemed to be able to flood the world with dollar currency and debt without ever seeming to pay a price in terms of higher inflation or interest rates.
But Europe is also acutely aware of the consequences of the rapid increase in violent conflict and suffering in its immediate neighborhood; indeed, Europeans see those consequences daily in the flood of refugees trying to reach its shores.

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