Flood

Quick meaning: Flood is a noun meaning (figuratively) A large number or quantity of anything appearing more rapidly than can easily be dealt with.

Meaning

(figuratively) A large number or quantity of anything appearing more rapidly than can easily be dealt with.

More Meanings

1. The flowing in of the tide, opposed to the ebb.
2. A floodlight.
3. Menstrual discharge; menses.
4. To overflow, as by water from excessive rainfall.
5. To cover or partly fill as if by a flood.
6. An overflow of a large amount of water (usually disastrous) from a lake or other body of water due to excessive rainfall or other input of water.
7. (obsolete) Water as opposed to land.

Example Sentences

a flood of complaints

a covenant never to destroy the earth again by flood

There is a tide in the affairs of men, / Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.

It was ebb tide when she touched, and it was supposed that when the flood made she would float off again.

Word Forms

• floods
• floud
• flooding
• flooded

Synonyms for flood

Depending on context, synonyms include overfill, inundate, swamp, deluge, spam, high.

Antonyms for flood

Common opposites include drain.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include inundation, deluge, swamp, inundate, torrent, outpouring.

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