Thesaurus: flood

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1. v. i. A great flow of water; a body of moving water; the flowing stream, as of a river; especially, a body of water, rising, swelling, and overflowing land not usually thus covered; a deluge; a freshet; an inundation.
2. v. i. The flowing in of the tide; the semidiurnal swell or rise of water in the ocean; -- opposed to ebb; as, young flood; high flood.
3. 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.
4. v. i. Menstrual disharge; menses.
5. v. t. To overflow; to inundate; to deluge; as, the swollen river flooded the valley.
6. 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.
7. n. the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land
8. n. an overwhelming number or amount
9. n. light that is a source of artificial illumination having a broad beam; used in photography
10. n. a large flow
11. n. the act of flooding; filling to overflowing
12. n. the occurrence of incoming water (between a low tide and the following high tide)