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sudden flood

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meanings of suddenand flood


These words are often used together. Click on the links below to explore the meanings. Or, see other collocations with flood.
sudden
adjective
uk /ˈsʌd.ən/ us /ˈsʌd.ən/
happening or done quickly and ...
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flood
noun
uk /flʌd/ us /flʌd/
a large amount of water covering an area that is ...
See more at flood


Examples of sudden flood


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I accept that it might result in a suddenflood of dividends in that period.
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I have no reason to believe that in future there will be a suddenflood of applications on odd bits of paper.
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There seems to have been a suddenflood in the take-up of loans in the past six weeks or so.
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First, the immediate control of a suddenflood of imports which might unbalance the market.
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Given the nature of the textile industry, in which a suddenflood of imports can lead to massive disruption in a short time, that delay is seriously damaging.
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At some later date, the mummy may have been caught in a suddenflood and carried downstream and rapidly buried in fine sand and clay.
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The desiccated carcass was eventually buried in a suddenflood, surrounded by sediment that had enough fine particles to make a cast of the epidermal structures.
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Meltwater flowed along a narrow basal glacier bed into a subglacial lake for five weeks, before being released as a suddenflood, or jkulhlaup.
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With heat waves, storms and sudden floods, the climate is changing.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
As a consequence of these droughts, we have also experienced huge fires or, in contrast, sudden and prolonged downpours that have caused equally sudden floods.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
The point was made there about the dislocation that is caused to a school when there are sudden floods in and out of children with special needs.
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The echidna can also dive underwater, which can help it to survive sudden floods.
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It can also destabilize glacial lakes leading to sudden floods, and destabilize snowpack causing avalanches.
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