flood
noun
- an overflow of water that submerges land which is usually dry
- overflow of water that submerges land
- cover with a liquid, to fill with an excess, filling past capacity with liquid
verb
- cover with a liquid, to fill with an excess, filling past capacity with liquid
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /flʌd/ / /flʊd/
name
- A surname.
noun
Etymology: From Middle English flod, from Old English flōd, from Proto-West Germanic *flōdu, from Proto-Germanic *flōduz, from *plew- (“to flow”). Cognate with Scots flude, fluid, Saterland Frisian Floud, Dutch vloed, German Flut, Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish flod, Icelandic flóð, and Gothic 𐍆𐌻𐍉𐌳𐌿𐍃 (flōdus).
- An overflow of a large amount of water (usually disastrous) from a lake or other body of water due to excessive rainfall or other input of water.
“a covenant never to destroy the earth again by flood”
“Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations.”
- A large number or quantity of anything appearing more rapidly than can easily be dealt with.
“a flood of complaints”
“Deregulation of financial markets laid the groundwork for the subprime crisis in the United States, while a badly designed euro contributed to the debt crisis in Greece, and the Schengen system of open borders made it difficult to control the flood of refugees in Europe.”
- The flowing in of the tide, opposed to the ebb.
“There is a tide in the affairs of men, / Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.”
“It was ebb tide when she touched, and it was supposed that when the flood made she would float off again.”
- A floodlight.
- Menstrual discharge; menses.
- Water as opposed to land.
“Who beheld from the safe shore their floating carcasses and broken chariot-wheels. So thick bestrown, abject and lost, lay these, covering the flood, under amazement of their hideous change.”
verb
Etymology: From Middle English flod, from Old English flōd, from Proto-West Germanic *flōdu, from Proto-Germanic *flōduz, from *plew- (“to flow”). Cognate with Scots flude, fluid, Saterland Frisian Floud, Dutch vloed, German Flut, Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish flod, Icelandic flóð, and Gothic 𐍆𐌻𐍉𐌳𐌿𐍃 (flōdus).
- To overflow, as by water from excessive rainfall.
“People flooded into the streets in protest.”
“The basement flooded with rainwater.”
- To cover or partly fill as if by a flood.
“The floor was flooded with beer.”
“They flooded the room with sewage.”
- To provide (someone or something) with a larger number or quantity of something than can easily be dealt with.
“The station's switchboard was flooded with listeners making complaints.”
“Blackburn offered nothing going forward in the opening period and that continued after the break, encouraging City to flood forward.”
- To paste numerous lines of text to (a chat system) in order to disrupt the conversation.
“There's also a spam filter in the code now, so if someone attempts to flood people's screens with macros or a bot, everything after the first few lines is thrown away.”
- To bleed profusely, as after childbirth.