Definition of flood

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Flood (v. i.) 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..

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Billow :: Billow (n.) A great wave or flood of anything.
Alluvium :: Alluvium (n.) Deposits of earth, sand, gravel, and other transported matter, made by rivers, floods, or other causes, upon land not permanently submerged beneath the waters of lakes or seas..
Inundation :: Inundation (n.) An overspreading of any kind; overflowing or superfluous abundance; a flood; a great influx; as, an inundation of tourists..
Inundate :: Inundate (v. t.) To cover with a flood; to overflow; to deluge; to flood; as, the river inundated the town..
Fleet :: Fleet (v. i.) A flood; a creek or inlet; a bay or estuary; a river; -- obsolete, except as a place name, -- as Fleet Street in London..
Fresh :: Fresh (n.) A flood; a freshet.
Antediluvial :: Antediluvial (a.) Before the flood, or Deluge, in Noah's time..
Cataclysm :: Cataclysm (n.) An extensive overflow or sweeping flood of water; a deluge.
Ebb Tide :: Ebb tide () The reflux of tide water; the retiring tide; -- opposed to flood tide.
Floodage :: Floodage (n.) Inundation.
Postdiluvian :: Postdiluvian (n.) One who lived after the flood.
Flooding :: Flooding (n.) The filling or covering with water or other fluid; overflow; inundation; the filling anything to excess.
Clough :: Clough (n.) A sluice used in returning water to a channel after depositing its sediment on the flooded land.
Pour :: Pour (v. t.) To send forth as in a stream or a flood; to emit; to let escape freely or wholly.
Redound :: Redound (v. i.) To roll back, as a wave or flood; to be sent or driven back; to flow back, as a consequence or effect; to conduce; to contribute; to result..
Flood :: Flood (v. i.) Menstrual disharge; menses.
Flashing :: Flashing (n.) The creation of an artifical flood by the sudden letting in of a body of water; -- called also flushing.
Tide :: Tide (n.) To pour a tide or flood.
Flood :: Flood (v. t.) To overflow; to inundate; to deluge; as, the swollen river flooded the valley..
Surgeon :: Surgent (a.) Rising; swelling, as a flood..
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