What does flooding mean?
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Princeton's WordNet
implosion therapy, floodingnoun
a technique used in behavior therapy; client is flooded with experiences of a particular kind until becoming either averse to them or numbed to them
Wiktionary
floodingnoun
An act of flooding; a flood or gush.
Wikipedia
flooding
A flood is an overflow of water (or rarely other fluids) that submerges land that is usually dry. In the sense of "flowing water", the word may also be applied to the inflow of the tide. Floods are an area of study of the discipline hydrology and are of significant concern in agriculture, civil engineering and public health. Human changes to the environment often increase the intensity and frequency of flooding, for example land use changes such as deforestation and removal of wetlands, changes in waterway course or flood controls such as with levees, and larger environmental issues such as climate change and sea level rise. In particular climate change's increased rainfall and extreme weather events increases the severity of other causes for flooding, resulting in more intense floods and increased flood risk.Flooding may occur as an overflow of water from water bodies, such as a river, lake, or ocean, in which the water overtops or breaks levees, resulting in some of that water escaping its usual boundaries, or it may occur due to an accumulation of rainwater on saturated ground in an areal flood. While the size of a lake or other body of water will vary with seasonal changes in precipitation and snow melt, these changes in size are unlikely to be considered significant unless they flood property or drown domestic animals. Floods can also occur in rivers when the flow rate exceeds the capacity of the river channel, particularly at bends or meanders in the waterway. Floods often cause damage to homes and businesses if they are in the natural flood plains of rivers. While riverine flood damage can be eliminated by moving away from rivers and other bodies of water, people have traditionally lived and worked by rivers because the land is usually flat and fertile and because rivers provide easy travel and access to commerce and industry. Flooding can lead to secondary consequences in addition to damage to property, such as long-term displacement of residents and creating increased spread of waterborne diseases and vector-bourne disesases transmitted by mosquitos.
ChatGPT
flooding
Flooding refers to the overflow or accumulation of an excess amount of water in a particular area, often caused by heavy rainfall, melting snow, tsunami, hurricane or dam failure. Flooding can be categorized into different types such as river flood, flash flood or coastal flood, and it can cause significant damage to the environment, infrastructure, property, and may lead to loss of life. Flooding can also occur in plumbing systems within buildings. The nature, extent and impact of a flood can vary widely depending on the geographical location, climate, and the built environment.
Webster Dictionary
Flooding
of Flood
Floodingnoun
the filling or covering with water or other fluid; overflow; inundation; the filling anything to excess
Floodingnoun
an abnormal or excessive discharge of blood from the uterus
Wikidata
Flooding
Flooding is a form of behavior therapy based on the principles of respondent conditioning. It is sometimes referred to as exposure therapy or prolonged exposure therapy. As a psychotherapeutic technique, it is used to treat phobia and anxiety disorders including post-traumatic stress disorder. It works by exposing the patient to their painful memories, with the goal of reintegrating their repressed emotions with their current awareness. Flooding was invented by psychologist Thomas Stampfl in 1967. It still is used in behavior therapy today. Flooding is a psychotherapeutic method for overcoming phobias. This is a faster method of ridding fears when compared with systematic desensitization. In order to demonstrate the irrationality of the fear, a psychologist would put a person in a situation where they would face their phobia at its worst. Under controlled conditions and using psychologically-proven relaxation techniques, the subject attempts to replace their fear with relaxation. The experience can often be traumatic for a person, but may be necessary if the phobia is causing them significant life disturbances. The advantage to flooding is that it is quick and usually effective. There is, however, a possibility that a fear may spontaneously recur. This can be made less likely with systematic desensitization, another form of a classical condition procedure for the elimination of phobias.
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of flooding in Chaldean Numerology is: 2
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of flooding in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1
Examples of flooding in a Sentence
There is nothing in our decision today that prevents carriers from charging consumers for this blocking technology to stop robocalls, i do not think that this agency should pat itself on the back for its efforts to reduce robocalls and then tell consumers to pay up. They are already paying the price in scams flooding our phone lines.
Flooding with the Saluda River is always an area of concern and we have had times when it did start to encroach our perimeter.
We will help each other now get through this crisis of flooding and hurricane.
My thoughts are with those across the country impacted by this devastating storm, while we’re fortunate in Virginia to have avoided the hurricane itself, heavy rainfall is expected to cause additional flash flooding and dangerous conditions inportions of the Commonwealth. I’m grateful to the first responders and rescue crews currently on the ground, and I urge Virginians in these regions to stay alert.
We have much more coastal flooding now than we did a decade or two ago, we have definitely seen an increase over the last five to 10 years of the amount of times that we reached that minimal threshold of 7 feet, which is what we call a coastal flood advisory.
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