DICTOMETER

FLOODS

1. Synonyms:
   • Flood
   • Inundation
   • Deluge
   • Alluvion
   Definitions:
   • the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land
   Examples:
   • Plains fertilized by annual inundations
   
   
2. Synonyms:
   • Flood
   • Inundation
   • Deluge
   • Torrent
   Definitions:
   • an overwhelming number or amount
   Examples:
   • A flood of requests
   • A torrent of abuse
   
   
3. Synonyms:
   • Flood
   • Floodlight
   • Flood lamp
   • Photoflood
   Definitions:
   • light that is a source of artificial illumination having a broad beam
   • used in photography
   
   
4. Synonyms:
   • Flood
   • Overflow
   • Outpouring
   Definitions:
   • a large flow
   
   
5. Synonyms:
   • Flood
   • Flowage
   Definitions:
   • the act of flooding
   • filling to overflowing
   
   
6. Synonyms:
   • Flood tide
   • Flood
   • Rising tide
   Definitions:
   • the occurrence of incoming water (between a low tide and the following high tide)
   Examples:
   • A tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune -Shakespeare
   
   

1. Synonyms:
   • Deluge
   • Flood
   • Inundate
   • Swamp
   Definitions:
   • fill quickly beyond capacity
   • as with a liquid
   Examples:
   • The basement was inundated after the storm
   • The images flooded his mind
   
   
2. Synonyms:
   • Flood
   Definitions:
   • cover with liquid, usually water
   Examples:
   • The swollen river flooded the village
   • The broken vein had flooded blood in her eyes
   
   
3. Synonyms:
   • Flood
   • Oversupply
   • Glut
   Definitions:
   • supply with an excess of
   Examples:
   • Flood the market with tennis shoes
   • Glut the country with cheap imports from the Orient
   
   
4. Synonyms:
   • Flood
   Definitions:
   • become filled to overflowing
   Examples:
   • Our basement flooded during the heavy rains