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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Ebb :: Ebb (n.) The reflux or flowing back of the tide; the return of the tidal wave toward the sea; -- opposed to flood; as, the boats will go out on the ebb..
Sweep :: Sweep (n.) The compass of anything flowing or brushing; as, the flood carried away everything within its sweep..
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..
Pour :: Pour (n.) A stream, or something like a stream; a flood..
Sluice :: Sluice (n.) The stream flowing through a flood gate.
Broad :: Broad (n.) The spread of a river into a sheet of water; a flooded fen.
Sweepings :: Sweeping (a.) Cleaning off surfaces, or cleaning away dust, dirt, or litter, as a broom does; moving with swiftness and force; carrying everything before it; including in its scope many persons or things; as, a sweeping flood; a sweeping majority; a sweeping accusation..
Reigle :: Reigle (n.) A hollow cut or channel for quiding anything; as, the reigle of a side post for a flood gate..
Flooding :: Flooding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Floo.
Hatch :: Hatch (n.) A flood gate; a a sluice gate.
Sluice :: Sluice (v. t.) To emit by, or as by, flood gates..
Waterflood :: Waterflood (n.) A flood of water; an inundation.
Flood :: Flood (v. t.) To overflow; to inundate; to deluge; as, the swollen river flooded the valley..
Salt :: Salt (n.) Marshes flooded by the tide.
Submerge :: Submerge (v. t.) To cover or overflow with water; to inundate; to flood; to drown.
Flush :: Flush (n.) A sudden flood or rush of feeling; a thrill of excitement. animation, etc.; as, a flush of joy..
Tide :: Tide (prep.) A stream; current; flood; as, a tide of blood..
Inundate :: Inundate (v. t.) To cover with a flood; to overflow; to deluge; to flood; as, the river inundated the town..
Diluvial :: Diluvial (a.) Effected or produced by a flood or deluge of water; -- said of coarse and imperfectly stratified deposits along ancient or existing water courses. Similar unstratified deposits were formed by the agency of ice. The time of deposition has been called the Diluvian epoch.
Antediluvial :: Antediluvial (a.) Before the flood, or Deluge, in Noah's time..
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