1. (n.)flood a great flowing or overflowing of water, esp. over land not usu. submerged.
2. flood any great outpouring or stream: a flood of tears.
3. flood the Flood, a universal deluge mentioned in various ancient religions, esp. the deluge recorded in the Bible as having occurred in the time of Noah (Gen. 7).
7. (v.t.)flood to cover with a flood; fill to overflowing.
8. flood to cover or fill as if with a flood: roads flooded with cars.
9. flood to overwhelm with an abundance of something: to be flooded with mail.
10. flood to supply too much fuel to (the carburetor), so that the engine fails to start.
11. flood to floodlight.
12. (v.i.)flood to flow or pour in or as if in a flood.
13. flood to rise in a flood; overflow.
14. flood to become flooded.
Etymology: (bef. 900; ME flod (n.), OE flōd; c. OFris, OS flōd, OHG fluot)
Definition of 'flood'
Princeton's WordNet
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"
3. (noun)flood, floodlight, flood lamp, photoflood light that is a source of artificial illumination having a broad beam; used in photography
4. (noun)flood, overflow, outpouring a large flow
5. (noun)flood, flowage the act of flooding; filling to overflowing
6. (verb)flood tide, flood, rising tide the occurrence of incoming water (between a low tide and the following high 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"
1. (noun)flood when an area of land is completely covered by water houses that were destroyed in the floods; natural disasters such as flood and fire
2. flood a large number of people or things coming at the same time a flood of bills in the mail; a flood of emotion
3. (verb)flood to cover or become covered with water The path had been flooded by the river.; The building was flooded.
4. flood to fill a place or arrive in large numbers Sunlight flooded the bedroom.; refugees flooding into the camps; The school has been flooded with complaints.
Definition of 'flood'
Webster Dictionary
1. (verb)flood 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. (verb)flood 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. (verb)flood 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
5. (verb)flood to overflow; to inundate; to deluge; as, the swollen river flooded the valley
6. (verb)flood 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
Definitions of 'flood'
The New Hacker's Dictionary
1. flood [common]
1. To overwhelm a network channel with mechanically-generated
traffic; especially used of IP, TCP/IP, UDP, or ICMP denial-of-service
attacks.
2. To dump large amounts of text onto an IRCchannel. This is especially rude when the text is uninteresting and the
other users are trying to carry on a serious conversation. Also used in a
similar sense on Usenet.
3. [Usenet] To post an unusually large number or volume of files on
a related topic.
Definitions of flood 
Afrikaans: vloed; oorstromings
Arabic: طوفان، فَيَضان
Bulgarian: потоп
Brazilian: inundação
Czech: povodeň
German: dieÜberschwemmung
Danish: oversvømmelse
Greek: πλημύρα
Spanish: inundación
Estonian: (vee)uputus
Farsi: سیل
Finnish: tulva
French: inondation
Hebrew: שִיטָפוֹן
Hindi: बाढ़, पानी भर जाना
Croatian: poplava
Hungarian: ár(víz)
Indonesian: air bah
Icelandic: flóð
Italian: inondazione, allagamento
Japanese: 洪水
Korean: 홍수
Lithuanian: potvynis
Latvian: plūdi
Malay: banjir
Dutch: overstroming
Norwegian: flom, oversvømmelse, høyv
Polish: powódź
Persian: سیل
Pashto: سيلاب، نيز، مد
Portuguese: inundação
Romanian: inundaţie
Russian: наводнение
Slovak: povodeň
Slovenian: poplava
Serbian: poplava
Swedish: översvämning
Thai: น้ำท่วม
Turkish: sel
Taiwanese: 水災，洪水
Ukrainian: повінь
Urdu: سیلاب
Vietnamese: cơn lũ lụt
Chinese: 水灾，洪水
