Definition of flood

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Flood (v. i.) 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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Debacle :: Debacle (n.) A breaking or bursting forth; a violent rush or flood of waters which breaks down opposing barriers, and hurls forward and disperses blocks of stone and other debris..
Fleet :: Fleet (v. i.) A flood; a creek or inlet; a bay or estuary; a river; -- obsolete, except as a place name, -- as Fleet Street in London..
Postdiluvian :: Postdiluvian (n.) One who lived after the flood.
Diluviate :: Diluviate (v. i.) To run as a flood.
Submerge :: Submerge (v. t.) To cover or overflow with water; to inundate; to flood; to drown.
Inundate :: Inundate (v. t.) To cover with a flood; to overflow; to deluge; to flood; as, the river inundated the town..
Sluice :: Sluice (n.) An artifical passage for water, fitted with a valve or gate, as in a mill stream, for stopping or regulating the flow; also, a water gate or flood gate..
Deluge :: Deluge (n.) A washing away; an overflowing of the land by water; an inundation; a flood; specifically, The Deluge, the great flood in the days of Noah (Gen. vii.)..
Waterflood :: Waterflood (n.) A flood of water; an inundation.
Hatch :: Hatch (n.) A flood gate; a a sluice gate.
Flow :: Flow (v. t.) To cover with water or other liquid; to overflow; to inundate; to flood.
Eger :: Eger (n.) An impetuous flood; a bore. See Eagre.
Cataclysm :: Cataclysm (n.) An extensive overflow or sweeping flood of water; a deluge.
Antediluvial :: Antediluvial (a.) Before the flood, or Deluge, in Noah's time..
Water-bound :: Water-bound (a.) Prevented by a flood from proceeding.
Flooding :: Flooding (n.) The filling or covering with water or other fluid; overflow; inundation; the filling anything to excess.
Billow :: Billow (n.) A great wave or flood of anything.
Redound :: Redound (v. i.) To roll back, as a wave or flood; to be sent or driven back; to flow back, as a consequence or effect; to conduce; to contribute; to result..
Flood :: Flood (v. i.) 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..
Float :: Float (v. t.) To flood; to overflow; to cover with water.
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