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Flood 1Definition: 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.
Flood 2Definition: The flowing in of the tide; the semidiurnal swell or rise of water in the ocean; opposed to ebb; as, young flood; high flood. Flood 3Definition: 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. Flood 4Definition: Menstrual disharge; menses. Flood 5Definition: To overflow; to inundate; to deluge; as, the swollen river flooded the valley. Flood 6Definition: 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. flood 7Definition: a large flow flood 8Definition: the act of flooding; filling to overflowing flood 9Definition: light that is a source of artificial illumination having a broad beam; used in photography flood 10Definition: the inward flow of the tide; "a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune" -Shakespeare flood 11Definition: the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land; "plains fertilized by annual inundations" flood 12Definition: an overwhelming number or amount; "a flood of requests"; "a torrent of abuse" flood 13Definition: cover with liquid, usually water; "The swollen river flooded the village"; "The broken vein had flooded blood in her eyes" flood 14Definition: become filled to overflowing; "Our basement flooded during the heavy rains" flood 15Definition: fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid; "the basement was inundated after the storm"; "The images flooded his mind" flood 16Definition: supply with an excess of; "flood the market with tennis shoes"; "Glut the country with cheap imports from the Orient"
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