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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Desolate :: Desolate (v. t.) To make desolate; to leave alone; to deprive of inhabitants; as, the earth was nearly desolated by the flood..
Clough :: Clough (n.) A sluice used in returning water to a channel after depositing its sediment on the flooded land.
Flash :: Flash (n.) A sudden burst of light; a flood of light instantaneously appearing and disappearing; a momentary blaze; as, a flash of lightning..
Waterflood :: Waterflood (n.) A flood of water; an inundation.
Aemail Ombrant :: Aemail ombrant () An art or process of flooding transparent colored glaze over designs stamped or molded on earthenware or porcelain.
Flush :: Flush (v. t.) To cause to be full; to flood; to overflow; to overwhelm with water; as, to flush the meadows; to flood for the purpose of cleaning; as, to flush a sewer..
Flooder :: Flooder (n.) One who floods anything.
Personification :: Personification (n.) A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstract idea is represented as animated, or endowed with personality; prosopop/ia; as, the floods clap their hands..
Nilometer :: Nilometer (n.) An instrument for measuring the rise of water in the Nile during its periodical flood.
Eagre :: Eagre (n.) A wave, or two or three successive waves, of great height and violence, at flood tide moving up an estuary or river; -- commonly called the bore. See Bore..
Diluviate :: Diluviate (v. i.) To run as a flood.
Effulgence :: Effulgence (n.) The state of being effulgent; extreme brilliancy; a flood of light; great luster or brightness; splendor.
Floodage :: Floodage (n.) Inundation.
Spate :: Spate (n.) A river flood; an overflow or inundation.
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..
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..
Broad :: Broad (n.) The spread of a river into a sheet of water; a flooded fen.
Water-bound :: Water-bound (a.) Prevented by a flood from proceeding.
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..
Briny :: Briny (a.) Of or pertaining to brine, or to the sea; partaking of the nature of brine; salt; as, a briny taste; the briny flood..
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