the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land; plains fertilized by annual inundations
[ Syn: inundation , deluge , alluvion ]
an overwhelming number or amount; a flood of requests; a torrent of abuse
[ Syn: inundation , deluge , torrent ]
light that is a source of artificial illumination having a broad beam; used in photography
[ Syn: floodlight , flood lamp , photoflood ]
a large flow
[ Syn: overflow , outpouring ]
the act of flooding; filling to overflowing
[ Syn: flowage ]
the occurrence of incoming water (between a low tide and the following high tide); a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune -Shakespeare
[ Syn: flood tide , rising tide ]
flood (n.)
fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid; the basement was inundated after the storm; The images flooded his mind
cover with liquid, usually water; The swollen river flooded the village; The broken vein had flooded blood in her eyes'
supply with an excess of; flood the market with tennis shoes; Glut the country with cheap imports from the Orient
[ Syn: oversupply , glut ]
become filled to overflowing; Our basement flooded during the heavy rains'