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Definition of flood

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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..

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Flooding :: Flooding (n.) An abnormal or excessive discharge of blood from the uterus.

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..

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.)..

Alternate :: Alternate (v. i.) To happen, succeed, or act by turns; to follow reciprocally in place or time; -- followed by with; as, the flood and ebb tides alternate with each other..

Aemail Ombrant :: Aemail ombrant () An art or process of flooding transparent colored glaze over designs stamped or molded on earthenware or porcelain.

Float :: Float (v. t.) To flood; to overflow; to cover with water.

Nilometer :: Nilometer (n.) An instrument for measuring the rise of water in the Nile during its periodical flood.

Stanch :: Stanch (n.) A flood gate by which water is accumulated, for floating a boat over a shallow part of a stream by its release..

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..

Postdiluvian :: Postdiluvian (a.) Being or happening after the flood in Noah's days.

Tide :: Tide (prep.) A stream; current; flood; as, a tide of blood..

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..

Sweep :: Sweep (n.) The compass of anything flowing or brushing; as, the flood carried away everything within its sweep..

Clough :: Clough (n.) A sluice used in returning water to a channel after depositing its sediment on the flooded land.

Effulgence :: Effulgence (n.) The state of being effulgent; extreme brilliancy; a flood of light; great luster or brightness; splendor.

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.

Inundation :: Inundation (n.) The act of inundating, or the state of being inundated; an overflow; a flood; a rising and spreading of water over grounds..

Surgeon :: Surgent (a.) Rising; swelling, as a flood..

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..

Tide :: Tide (n.) To pour a tide or flood.