flood
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1. flood - Noun
2. flood - Verb
3. Flood - Proper noun
Meaning
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.
The flowing in of the tide; the semidiurnal swell or rise of water in the ocean; -- opposed to ebb; as, young flood; high 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.
Menstrual disharge; menses.
To overflow; to inundate; to deluge; as, the swollen river flooded the valley.
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.
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The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.
In the great flood of human life that is spawned upon the earth, it is not often that a man is born.
O Caledonia stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child Land of brown heath and shaggy wood Land of the mountain and the flood.
To the ant, a few drops of dew is a flood.
The flood takes him in, and the ebb takes him out.
Merchant's goods are ebb and flood.