Definition of flood

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Flood (v. t.) 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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Flash :: Flash (v. i.) To burst or break forth with a sudden and transient flood of flame and light; as, the lighting flashes vividly; the powder flashed..
Sweep :: Sweep (n.) The compass of anything flowing or brushing; as, the flood carried away everything within its sweep..
Ebb :: Ebb (n.) The reflux or flowing back of the tide; the return of the tidal wave toward the sea; -- opposed to flood; as, the boats will go out on the ebb..
Billow :: Billow (n.) A great wave or flood of anything.
Flooded :: Flooded (imp. & p. p.) of Floo.
Alluvion :: Alluvion (n.) An overflowing; an inundation; a flood.
Sluice :: Sluice (n.) An artifical passage for water, fitted with a valve or gate, as in a mill stream, for stopping or regulating the flow; also, a water gate or flood gate..
Floodage :: Floodage (n.) Inundation.
Freshet :: Freshet (a.) A flood or overflowing of a stream caused by heavy rains or melted snow; a sudden inundation.
Tide :: Tide (n.) To pour a tide or flood.
Flash :: Flash (n.) A sudden burst of light; a flood of light instantaneously appearing and disappearing; a momentary blaze; as, a flash of lightning..
Fresh :: Fresh (n.) The mingling of fresh water with salt in rivers or bays, as by means of a flood of fresh water flowing toward or into the sea..
Surgeon :: Surgent (a.) Rising; swelling, as a flood..
Flooder :: Flooder (n.) One who floods anything.
Landflood :: Landflood (n.) An overflowing of land by river; an inundation; a freshet.
Flood :: Flood (v. i.) 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..
Reigle :: Reigle (n.) A hollow cut or channel for quiding anything; as, the reigle of a side post for a flood gate..
Nilometer :: Nilometer (n.) An instrument for measuring the rise of water in the Nile during its periodical flood.
Fresh :: Fresh (n.) A flood; a freshet.
Flooding :: Flooding (n.) An abnormal or excessive discharge of blood from the uterus.
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