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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Float :: Float (v. t.) To flood; to overflow; to cover with water.
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..
Landflood :: Landflood (n.) An overflowing of land by river; an inundation; a freshet.
Diluviate :: Diluviate (v. i.) To run as a flood.
Flooding :: Flooding (n.) The filling or covering with water or other fluid; overflow; inundation; the filling anything to excess.
Flooding :: Flooding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Floo.
Antediluvial :: Antediluvial (a.) Before the flood, or Deluge, in Noah's time..
Desolate :: Desolate (v. t.) To make desolate; to leave alone; to deprive of inhabitants; as, the earth was nearly desolated by the flood..
Sluice :: Sluice (n.) The stream flowing through a flood gate.
Spate :: Spate (n.) A river flood; an overflow or inundation.
Alluvion :: Alluvion (n.) An overflowing; an inundation; a flood.
Surgeon :: Surgent (a.) Rising; swelling, as a flood..
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..
Pour :: Pour (n.) A stream, or something like a stream; a flood..
Cataclysm :: Cataclysm (n.) An extensive overflow or sweeping flood of water; a deluge.
Diluvial :: Diluvial (a.) Of or pertaining to a flood or deluge, esp. to the great deluge in the days of Noah; diluvian..
Fresh :: Fresh (n.) The mingling of fresh water with salt in rivers or bays, as by means of a flood of fresh water flowing toward or into the sea..
Flashing :: Flashing (n.) The creation of an artifical flood by the sudden letting in of a body of water; -- called also flushing.
Freshet :: Freshet (a.) A flood or overflowing of a stream caused by heavy rains or melted snow; a sudden inundation.
Flash :: Flash (n.) A sudden burst of light; a flood of light instantaneously appearing and disappearing; a momentary blaze; as, a flash of lightning..
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