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flood

Definition

  • noun: a large amount of water covering an area of land that is usually dry
  • noun: a rising and overflowing of a body of water especially onto normally dry land
  • verb: to cover (land) with a flood
  • verb: to cover with a flood
  • often used in the phrase 'in full flood'
  • synonyms: inundate, deluge, freshet

Examples

  • The company has been subjected to a 'flood tide' [='flood'] of criticism for its hiring policies.

  • He wasn't able to start the car because he had 'flooded' the engine.

  • a political movement that was 'in full flood' in the 1980s

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) if we're gonna make it back. Set your watch, we need a good minutes. There it is! Galen says it's been here awhile. He thinks the last flood did it. Oh, hold it. Look. Little shits. There it is. Yeah. There it is. (..)
    2012 Mud