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overflow, outpouring, flowage, floodlight, flood lamp, photoflood, inundation, deluge, alluvion, torrent, inundate, swamp, oversupply, glut Definition: a large flow;the act of flooding; filling to overflowing;light that is a source of artificial illumination having a broad beam; used in photography;the inward flow of the tide; "a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune" -Shakespeare;the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land; "plains fertilized by annual inundations";an overwhelming number or amount; "a flood of requests"; "a torrent of abuse";cover with liquid, usually water; "The swollen river flooded the village"; "The broken vein had flooded blood in her eyes";become filled to overflowing; "Our basement flooded during the heavy rains";fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid; "the basement was inundated after the storm"; "The images flooded his mind";supply with an excess of; "flood the market with tennis shoes"; "Glut the country with cheap imports from the Orient";
See Also: overwhelm, deluge, flood out, flood in Hyponyms: effusion, debacle, flash flood, flashflood, flow, inundate, deluge, submerge, swamp, drench Part Meronyms: photographic equipment, flood tide, rising tide Derivational Morphology:
overflow, overrun, well over, run over, brim over, flow, deluge, inundate, swamp, floodlight, submerge, overwhelm, flood out, oversupply, glut, inundation, alluvion, flowage, torrent, implosion therapy, flooding, downpour, cloudburst, waterspout, pelter, soaker, surfeit
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