VividLex

Home / Thesaurus / floods

Thesaurus: floods

n the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land n an overwhelming number or amount n light that is a source of artificial illumination having a broad beam; used in photography n a large flow n …

Full dictionary entry Search Lens associations

Related headwords

Definitions

  1. n the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land n an overwhelming number or amount n light that is a source of artificial illumination having a broad beam; used in photography n a large flow n the act of flooding; filling to overflowing n the occurrence of incoming water (between a low tide and the following high tide) v fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid v cover with liquid, usually water v supply with an excess of v become filled to overflowing