What does flooding mean?
Flooding means present participle and gerund of flood.
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/ˈflʌdɪŋ/ · verb
present participle and gerund of flood.
And by the same token it was plain that there had also been a hundred and seventy-five floodings of the earth and depositings of limestone strata!
[...] at Cowley Bridge Junction, east of Exeter, both lines were impassable from about 1.30 p.m.—the first flooding of the junction for 36 years—and by the evening the water had risen two-thirds of the way up the platforms at St. Davids as Exeter faced its worst flooding for 60 years.
Use flooding when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Flooding means present participle and gerund of flood.
Common synonyms include high, swollen, overflowing, implosion therapy.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
And by the same token it was plain that there had also been a hundred and seventy-five floodings of the earth and depositings of limestone strata!
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