Definition of flood

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Flood (v. i.) The flowing in of the tide; the semidiurnal swell or rise of water in the ocean; -- opposed to ebb; as, young flood; high flood..

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Flow :: Flow (v. t.) To cover with water or other liquid; to overflow; to inundate; to flood.
Surgeon :: Surgent (a.) Rising; swelling, as a flood..
Diluvial :: Diluvial (a.) Of or pertaining to a flood or deluge, esp. to the great deluge in the days of Noah; diluvian..
Pour :: Pour (n.) A stream, or something like a stream; a flood..
Flooding :: Flooding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Floo.
Flooding :: Flooding (n.) The filling or covering with water or other fluid; overflow; inundation; the filling anything to excess.
Fresh :: Fresh (n.) A flood; a freshet.
Billow :: Billow (n.) A great wave or flood of anything.
Broad :: Broad (n.) The spread of a river into a sheet of water; a flooded fen.
Float :: Float (v. t.) To flood; to overflow; to cover with water.
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..
Waterflood :: Waterflood (n.) A flood of water; an inundation.
Flashing :: Flashing (n.) The creation of an artifical flood by the sudden letting in of a body of water; -- called also flushing.
Eger :: Eger (n.) An impetuous flood; a bore. See Eagre.
Flood :: Flood (v. i.) A great flow or stream of any fluid substance; as, a flood of light; a flood of lava; hence, a great quantity widely diffused; an overflowing; a superabundance; as, a flood of bank notes; a flood of paper currency..
Freshet :: Freshet (a.) A flood or overflowing of a stream caused by heavy rains or melted snow; a sudden inundation.
Flooded :: Flooded (imp. & p. p.) of Floo.
Antediluvial :: Antediluvial (a.) Before the flood, or Deluge, in Noah's time..
Postdiluvian :: Postdiluvian (a.) Being or happening after the flood in Noah's days.
Sweep :: Sweep (n.) The compass of anything flowing or brushing; as, the flood carried away everything within its sweep..
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