1. (noun)flood, inundation, deluge, alluvion the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land "plains fertilized by annual inundations"
2. (noun)flood, inundation, deluge, torrent an overwhelming number or amount "a flood of requests"; "a torrent of abuse"
5. (noun)flood, flowage the act of flooding; filling to overflowing
6. (noun)flood tide, flood, rising tide the occurrence of incomingwater (between a low tide and the followinghigh tide) "a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune" -Shakespeare
7. (verb)deluge, flood, inundate, swamp fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid "the basement was inundated after the storm"; "The images flooded his mind"
8. (verb)flood cover with liquid, usually water "The swollen river flooded the village"; "The broken vein had flooded blood in her eyes"
9. (verb)flood, oversupply, glut supply with an excess of "flood the market with tennis shoes"; "Glut the country with cheap imports from the Orient"
10. (verb)flood become filled to overflowing "Our basement flooded during the heavy rains"
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