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Main Entry:	flood [fluhd] Show IPA/flʌd/ Show Spelled
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	overwhelming flow, quantity
Synonyms:	abundance, alluvion, bore, bounty, cataclysm, cataract, current, deluge, downpour, drencher, drift, eager, excess, flow, flux, freshet, glut, inundation, multitude, niagara, outgushing, outpouring, overflow, plenty, pour, profusion, rush, spate, stream, superabundance, superfluity, surge, surplus, tide, torrent, tsunami, wave

Main Entry:	avalanche
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	falling large mass; sudden rush of large quantity
Synonyms:	barrage, deluge, flood, inundation, landslide, landslip, snowslide, torrent
Notes:	avalanche means literally 'a gulp, something swallowed' from French avaler 'to swallow' and Italian lava 'torrent' and refers to snow, rocks, or other debris coming down a mountainside - whereas a landslide is an entire mountainside coming down

Main Entry:	bathe
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	wash with water and, usually, soap
Synonyms:	bath, clean, cleanse, dip, douse, dunk, flood, hose, imbathe, imbue, immerse, moisten, rinse, scour, scrub, shower, soak, soap, sponge, steep, submerge, suffuse, tub, water, wet
Antonyms:	dirty

Example Sentences

Jaczko climbed over a makeshift metal staircase to get over the flood barrier at the entrance to the building.

My in box has recently been besieged by a flood of articles decrying the death of graduate education in the humanities.

It also replenishes the fertility of flood plain soils.

Jaczko climbed over a makeshift metal staircase to get over the flood barrier at the entrance to the building.

My in box has recently been besieged by a flood of articles decrying the death of graduate education in the humanities.

It also replenishes the fertility of flood plain soils.

The inconvenience or catastrophe of a flood is the price they sometimes pay.

The explosion in commercial archaeology has brought a flood of information.

Hence, they opened the flood gates for these highly destructive insects.

Flood or drip-irrigate your tomatoes and never use an overhead sprinkler.

While there is certainly a component of changing flood risk with a changing climate, the problem is fundamentally a spatial one.

By underpricing flood risks, the government gives people an incentive to live in flood-prone areas.

Colleges save time and labor in dealing with a continuing flood of applicants.

Digital data will flood the planet-and help us understand it better.

Many cultures have flood myths-tales of ancient destruction on an epic scale.

They adapted by having squares flood, by having stairs under water by having the first floor of many buildings flood.

In a month, scientists will be using sonar and surveying tools in the river banks to figure out how well the flood worked.

Whether it's able to maintain that level of service if millions of iPhones flood its network is another question, however.

Although she could not see the flood damage, she could sense it.

As a result reconstruction and rehabilitation work too delayed and flood victims too affected.

Flood plains are often rich in nutrients and create fertile farmland.

Fish travelling through flood waters disperse seeds.

Reaading this great story brought back a flood of memories.

Sadly, photographs, report cards and vacation mementos were lost to the flood.

The paths are also where broader agreement about flood abatement grow complicated.

Drought and flood will put the livelihoods of hundreds of millions, mostly in developing countries, at risk.

When melting snows and heavy rains fill rivers beyond their banks, they flood.

Ice cap or whatever maintains that there's this flood of money going into climate science.

Same with living in a flood plane or other pending disaster area.

Reservoirs often flood forests, which give off methane and other greenhouse gases as they decompose.

Cheap plastic has unleashed a flood of consumer goods.

They are large enough to trip the sensor on my flood lights.

So, not only did the dam provide electricity but also flood control.

Flood the containment domes with highly refrigerated nitrogen gas.

River men set the maximum of the present flood at fifty-one feet.

The levees are patched up, but the flood risk remains high.

Flood debris may circulate in ocean gyres for years.

Dutch law now requires this principle to be used to determine the strength of flood defenses throughout the country.

Farmers in many flood plains plant crops that grow underwater, such as deep water aman rice or jute.

Here's why new flood insurance policies are currently unavailable.

Once that psychological barrier is gone then it will unleash the flood.

The result was a flood of garbage that could not be stemmed.

Drowning in a flash flood can now be ruled out as a cause of death, even if a more gentle flood created the fossil deposit.

New book sales plummet as used books and examination copies flood the market.

The international relief effort has been doing less to help the flood victims than it might have done.

Doing this might help keep flood water out of big cities.

They were close in age and had probably died together in a flood or other catastrophe.

People will flood into the cities by the tens of millions.

But now we're making it happen far faster than the flood basalts ever did.

If you move there, watch for flood damage in any housing or cars that you buy.

She said that as she watched from above, the flood took all her possessions, including her prized farm animals.

Japanese crews have been trying to flood reactors with seawater and restore outside power to the plant.

Electric flood lights have been installed along the walls to light up the entire area, which is guarded by the peacekeepers.

Tidal flood current velocities are positive and ebb current velocities are negative.

There had been a big flood and several shops were cleaning up or had parts closed from it.

Each year, the waters flood the surrounding rain forests.

Whether she perished in the flood or before the flood is unknown.

They are more vulnerable than ever as the parking lot and surrounding grounds flood rapidly when the rains come down.

Once in school, the children are confronted with a flood of confusing and potentially upsetting stimuli.

He named his e-commerce company after the world's largest river to suggest a flood of books and other.

In these situations, fire extinguishers use different materials--ones that flood a protected compartment with a fire-fighting gas.

The flood overwhelmed the site's servers, making it inaccessible to the public.

That's inviting a flood of material that will probably prove unenlightening.

Meanwhile cheap digital-video cameras and editing software have produced a flood of content.

One of these, originally created for flood control rather than marsh.

Floods and natural disasters loom at every town hall built on flood plains and watershed regions.

Websites being made unavailable by a flood of unwanted traffic isn't terrorism.

For instance, coral reefs, coastal wetlands and mangroves provide natural flood and storm protection.

Eight months later it closed, never to reopen, a victim of flood damage and engineering flaws.

America is both by far the biggest donor to flood relief and the biggest source of other bilateral aid.

Please also provide links to reliable sources for evidence of this supposed flood.

That, in turn, has prompted a flood of primary and secondary offerings in property-related shares.

The system can help soldiers make sense of the flood of information streaming.

Maybe anger can flood the brain with chemicals that give the illusion of creative thought.

Today, older students and alumni flood campuses in the first weeks of the new academic year to recruit for the cults.

Rising sea levels cause major problems as they erode and flood coastlines and, yes, as they mix salt water with fresh.

When a neuron fires, calcium ions flood through special cell channels.

Those bubbles lasted longer than expected because the flood of savings from developing markets held down the risk-free rate.

Five special courts are not enough to deal with the flood of cases, and more are being created.

Main Entry:	cascade
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	something falling, especially water
Synonyms:	avalanche, cataract, chute, deluge, downrush, falls, flood, force, fountain, outpouring, precipitation, rapids, shower, spout, torrent, watercourse, waterfall

Main Entry:	cascade
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	fall in a rush
Synonyms:	descend, disgorge, flood, gush, heave, overflow, pitch, plunge, pour, spew, spill, spit up, surge, throw up, tumble, vomit

Main Entry:	cataclysm
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	disaster
Synonyms:	calamity, cataract, catastrophe, collapse, convulsion, crunch, curtains, debacle, deluge, disturbance, double trouble, flood, flooding, holy mess, inundation, misadventure, ruin, torrent, tragedy, unholy mess, upheaval, waterloo, woe
Antonyms:	boon, good fortune, happiness, miracle, wonder

Main Entry:	crowd
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	large assembly
Synonyms:	army, array, blowout, bunch, cattle, circle, clique, cloud, cluster, company, concourse, confluence, conflux, congeries, congregation, coterie, crew, crush, deluge, drove, faction, flock, flood, gaggle, great unwashed, group, herd, horde, host, jam, legion, lot, mass, masses, meet, mob, multitude, muster, organization, pack, party, people, posse, press, rabble, rank and file, scores, sellout, set, stream, surge, swarm, throng, troupe, tumult

Main Entry:	current
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	flow of something, usually water
Synonyms:	course, draught, drift, ebb and flow, flood, flux, jet, juice, progression, river, run, rush, spate, stream, tidal motion, tide

Main Entry:	deluge
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	inundate with water
Synonyms:	douse, drench, drown, engulf, flood, flush, gush, overflow, overrun, overwhelm, pour, sluice, soak, sop, souse, stream, submerge, swamp, wet, whelm

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