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flood

English

🔊 a large flow
🔊 the act of flooding
🔊 light that is a source of artificial illumination having a broad beam
🔊 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”
🔊 the occurrence of incoming water (between a low tide and the following high tide)
“a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune”
🔊 cover with liquid, usually water
“The swollen river flooded the village”
🔊 become filled to overflowing
“Our basement flooded during the heavy rains”
🔊 supply with an excess of
“flood the market with tennis shoes”
🔊 fill quickly beyond capacity
“the basement was inundated after the storm”