Definition of flood

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Flood (v. t.) To cause or permit to be inundated; to fill or cover with water or other fluid; as, to flood arable land for irrigation; to fill to excess or to its full capacity; as, to flood a country with a depreciated currency..

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Eger :: Eger (n.) An impetuous flood; a bore. See Eagre.
Cataclysm :: Cataclysm (n.) An extensive overflow or sweeping flood of water; a deluge.
Flooding :: Flooding (n.) An abnormal or excessive discharge of blood from the uterus.
Flooding :: Flooding (n.) The filling or covering with water or other fluid; overflow; inundation; the filling anything to excess.
Flooded :: Flooded (imp. & p. p.) of Floo.
Flooder :: Flooder (n.) One who floods anything.
Nilometer :: Nilometer (n.) An instrument for measuring the rise of water in the Nile during its periodical flood.
Float :: Float (v. t.) To flood; to overflow; to cover with water.
Flow :: Flow (v. t.) To cover with water or other liquid; to overflow; to inundate; to flood.
Floodage :: Floodage (n.) Inundation.
Postdiluvian :: Postdiluvian (a.) Being or happening after the flood in Noah's days.
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..
Flash :: Flash (v. i.) To burst or break forth with a sudden and transient flood of flame and light; as, the lighting flashes vividly; the powder flashed..
Water-bound :: Water-bound (a.) Prevented by a flood from proceeding.
Clough :: Clough (n.) A sluice used in returning water to a channel after depositing its sediment on the flooded land.
Pour :: Pour (v. t.) To send forth as in a stream or a flood; to emit; to let escape freely or wholly.
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..
Submerge :: Submerge (v. t.) To cover or overflow with water; to inundate; to flood; to drown.
Fresh :: Fresh (n.) A flood; a freshet.
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..
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