Synonym: deluge, drench, inundate, overfill, overflow, oversupply. Antonym: drain, draught. Similar words: floor, bloody, flour, flow, float, flourish, food, good. Meaning: [flʌd] n. 1. the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land 2. an overwhelming number or amount 3. light that is a source of artificial illumination having a broad beam; used in photography 4. a large flow 5. the act of flooding; filling to overflowing 6. the occurrence of incoming water (between a low tide and the following high tide). v. 1. fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid 2. cover with liquid, usually water 3. supply with an excess of 4. become filled to overflowing.
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181. Flood overwhelmed the city.
182. Aid agencies are making mercy flights into the flood region.
183. Several houses in the village were carried away when the river was in flood.
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184. Kabul resounded to the crack of Kalashnikov fire and a flood of artillery.
185. Plague often follows flood.
186. The town is now counting the cost of its failure to provide adequate flood protection.
187. The strike , couple with the flood, was expected to reduce supplies of food drastically.
188. A great flood of anger washed through Ellwood.
189. The pond was in flood.
190. On Friday, flood waters breached the river's banks.
191. You can barely make out fragments of familiar scenes: a flood, a fire, a burning book.
192. Flood never enjoyed the freedom he sought in baseball, but his efforts paved the way for other court battles.
193. This toll bridge was at Whitney suffered damage from the fast flowing flood, and parts of Hereford are already underwater.
194. Woolsey served on the Petaluma City Council when the flood project was authorized after the devastating floods of 1982-83.
195. His body was erroneously producing a flood of white blood cells in a frantic search for a disease that did not exist.
196. Cushendall police requested further assistance in the Glengariff area at 1345 where more livestock had become cut off by the flood waters.
197. The final blow for many firms was the government's abolition of import duties which resulted in a flood of cheap imports.
198. Time allowed 04:56 Read in studio A red flood alert has been issued tonight for one of the region's rivers.
199. Mr Flood wouldn't let them near his yard so the matter didn't arise.
200. The deadline came, the flood gates opened and we breathed a sigh of relief.
201. Ocean island and continental flood basalt occurrences represent different expressions of plume activity.
202. The biblical stories of the Creation and the Flood and their ancient Mesopotamian analogues belong to this same family of images.
203. Thoughts are like burning stars, and ideas, they flood, they stretch the universe. Criss Jami
204. Contributing to an educational foundation or flood relief wins bonus points.
205. And as she remembered her own vivid imaginings a blush crept up her throat to flood her cheeks with hot colour.
206. Like Noah in his ark, they had traveled across the vast oceanic flood to carry out their holy mission.
207. The slaves gathered on August 30, 1800, but disbanded because a violent storm and flood made military operations impossible.
208. Residents still angry at the flood would still be angry at her, to use the best meatball psychology I know.
209. The same would be true if Clinton responds by scaring women about a flood of pro-life Dole-appointed judges.
210. Several Devon roads were closed with the Otter and Dart rivers on red flood alert.