flood

Noun
  1. The rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land (synset 111475008)
    "plains fertilized by annual inundations"
    is a type of: geological phenomenon - a natural phenomenon involving the structure or composition of the earth
    subtypes:
    • debacle - flooding caused by a tumultuous breakup of ice in a river during the spring or summer
    • flash flood, flashflood - a sudden local flood of great volume and short duration
    • noachian deluge, noah and the flood, noah's flood, the flood - (Biblical) the great deluge that is said in the Book of Genesis to have occurred in the time of Noah; it was brought by God upon the earth because of the wickedness of human beings
    same as: alluvion, deluge, inundation
  2. An overwhelming number or amount (synset 113797906)
    "a flood of requests"; "a torrent of abuse"
    is a type of: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad - (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
    same as: deluge, inundation, torrent
  3. Light that is a source of artificial illumination having a broad beam;
    Used in photography (synset 103370220)
    is a type of: light, light source - any device serving as a source of illumination
    is a part of: photographic equipment - equipment used by a photographer
    same as: flood lamp, floodlight, photoflood
  4. A large flow (synset 100330645)
    is a type of: flow, stream - the act of flowing or streaming; continuous progression
    subtypes: effusion - flow under pressure
    same as: outpouring, overflow
  5. The act of flooding;
    Filling to overflowing (synset 101260222)
    is a type of: filling - the act of filling something
    same as: flowage
  6. The occurrence of incoming water (between a low tide and the following high tide) (synset 107417630)
    "a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune"
    is a type of: tide - the periodic rise and fall of the sea level under the gravitational pull of the moon
    same as: flood tide, rising tide
Verb
  1. Fill quickly beyond capacity;
    As with a liquid (synset 201527311)
    "the basement was inundated after the storm"; "The images flooded his mind"
    is a type of: fill, fill up, make full - make full, also in a metaphorical sense
    same as: deluge, inundate, swamp
  2. Cover with liquid, usually water (synset 200217578)
    "The swollen river flooded the village"; "The broken vein had flooded blood in her eyes"
    is a type of: cover, spread over - form a cover over
    subtypes:
  3. Supply with an excess of (synset 202361703)
    "flood the market with tennis shoes"; "Glut the country with cheap imports from the Orient"
    is a type of: furnish, provide, render, supply - give something useful or necessary to
    same as: glut, oversupply
  4. Become filled to overflowing (synset 200453175)
    "Our basement flooded during the heavy rains"
    is a type of: fill, fill up - become full

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