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(verb) cover with liquid, usually water; "The swollen river flooded the village"; "The broken vein had flooded blood in her eyes" |
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Related Words: cover, deluge, drench, flow, inundate, spread over, submerge, swamp |
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(noun) a large flow |
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Synonyms: outpouring, overflow |
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Related Words: effusion, flow, stream |
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(verb) become filled to overflowing; "Our basement flooded during the heavy rains" |
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Related Words: fill, fill up |
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(noun) the act of flooding; filling to overflowing |
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Related Words: filling |
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(adjective) incoming; "flood tide"; "high tide" |
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Synonyms: high |
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Antonyms: ebb |
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(verb) supply with an excess of; "flood the market with tennis shoes" |
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Synonyms: oversupply |
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Related Words: furnish, provide, render, supply |
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(noun) a source of artificial illumination having a broad beam; used in photography |
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Synonyms: flood lamp, floodlight, photoflood |
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Related Words: light, light source |
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(noun) the inward flow of the tide; "a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune" -Shakespeare |
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Related Words: flow, flowing |
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(noun) the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land |
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Synonyms: deluge, inundation |
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Related Words: debacle, flash flood, geological phenomenon |
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(noun) an overwhelming number or amount; "a flood of requests"; "a torrent of abuse" |
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Synonyms: deluge, torrent |
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Related Words: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, muckle, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad, whole lot, whole slew |
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(verb) fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid; "the basement was inundated after the storm"; "The images flooded his mind" |
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Synonyms: deluge, inundate, swamp |
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Related Words: fill, fill up, make full |
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(verb) fill beyond capacity; "The water flooded the fields" |
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Synonyms: deluge, inundate |
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Related Words: fill, occupy |
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