Definition of flood

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Flood (v. t.) To overflow; to inundate; to deluge; as, the swollen river flooded the valley..

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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..
Flooding :: Flooding (n.) The filling or covering with water or other fluid; overflow; inundation; the filling anything to excess.
Tide :: Tide (prep.) A stream; current; flood; as, a tide of blood..
Diluvial :: Diluvial (a.) Of or pertaining to a flood or deluge, esp. to the great deluge in the days of Noah; diluvian..
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..
Float :: Float (v. t.) To flood; to overflow; to cover with water.
Flush :: Flush (n.) A sudden flood or rush of feeling; a thrill of excitement. animation, etc.; as, a flush of joy..
Bore :: Bore (n.) A tidal flood which regularly or occasionally rushes into certain rivers of peculiar configuration or location, in one or more waves which present a very abrupt front of considerable height, dangerous to shipping, as at the mouth of the Amazon, in South America, the Hoogly and Indus, in India, and the Tsien-tang, in China..
Flooding :: Flooding (n.) An abnormal or excessive discharge of blood from the uterus.
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..
Floodage :: Floodage (n.) Inundation.
Submerge :: Submerge (v. t.) To cover or overflow with water; to inundate; to flood; to drown.
Cataclysm :: Cataclysm (n.) An extensive overflow or sweeping flood of water; a deluge.
Waterflood :: Waterflood (n.) A flood of water; an inundation.
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.
Sluice :: Sluice (n.) The stream flowing through a flood gate.
Flood :: Flood (v. t.) To overflow; to inundate; to deluge; as, the swollen river flooded the valley..
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..
Clough :: Clough (n.) A sluice used in returning water to a channel after depositing its sediment on the flooded land.
Eger :: Eger (n.) An impetuous flood; a bore. See Eagre.
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