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flood | American Dictionary

flood
verb[ I/T ]
us/flʌd/

floodverb[I/T] (COVER WITH WATER)

to fill or become covered with water or to cause this to happen to something:
[ T ]A burst pipe flooded the bathroom.
[ I ]The basements of many downtown buildings would flood whenever it rained.

floodverb[I/T] (FILL)

to fill or be filled with a large amount or too much of something:
[ Ialways+ adv/prep ]Sunlight floods in through a skylight in the ceiling.
[ Ialways+ adv/prep ]In the 1960s, Cuban immigrants began to flood into Florida.
[ T ]We don’t want them to flood the market with cheap imports.
If you flood an engine, you fill it with so much fuel that it will not start.
flood
noun[ C ]
us/flʌd/

floodnoun[C] (LARGE AMOUNT OF WATER)

a large amount of water covering an area that is usually dry:
Kingston was heavily damaged by a flood.

floodnoun[C] (LARGE AMOUNT OF SOMETHING)

a large amount or number of something:
Planners are hoping for a flood of visitors when the center opens.
He was filled with a flood of new emotions.

flood | Business English

flood
verb[ I or T ]
uk /flʌd/us
to enter or leave a place in large numbers or amounts:
Record public spending, fueled by high oil prices, is flooding the country's flourishing economy with cash.
Electronic gadgets have flooded the market in recent years.
flood in from somewhereTurnover continues to increase as orders flood in from around the world.
flood into/out of sthForeign money has been flooding into the London property market for several years now.
[ T, usually passive ]
to send something such as letters, emails, or requests in large numbers to a person or organization:
Unwanted email – or spam – is flooding inboxes at an unprecedented rate.
be flooded with orders/requests/callsThe phone lines were flooded with calls from worried and angry consumers.
flood sth with sthOverseas students continue to flood colleges with applications for courses.
flood
noun[ C ]
uk /flʌd/us
a large number or amount of people or things:
Fund managers are surprised how quickly the trickle of money leaving the country has become a flood.
a flood of sthA bumper harvest coupled with a flood of imports have pushed the price of sugar lower.

Examples of flood

flood
A variety of ' loyal ' complaints and petitions flooded into government offices to complement this underhand resistance.
In the rainy season in particular, potholes, floods, swamps and filth make it extremely difficult for cars and trucks to ply the roads.
Thus, while music culture is flooded by the latest technology, the need for a defence against oversimplification has grown.
The region is characterized by tropical seasonally flooded savannas.
The precise sense of gelad may have been 'water-crossing liable to be rendered impassable by flooding'.
Effects of flooding on memories of patients with posttraumatic stress disorder.
During the 1931 survey it was noticed that these belts frequently formed the highwater-mark of the floods.
Late water floods can be used to lower pesticide inputs but the success of this practice is dependent on many variables36,38.
Nevertheless, some relatively small differences were detected in the degree of secondary dormancy induced in each population by flooding.
Frequency of flooding which covered seedling census plots did not differ among the sites.
Studies began 1 y before the onset of forest fragmentation and encompassed the first 3 y after flooding.
More than 90% of the landscape is terra firme, although small periodically flooded areas also occur.
The response of fishes to periodic spring floods in a southeastern stream.
He also noted sudden thickening of coals along zones adjacent to belts of thin coal, which was ascribed to redeposition by flooding.
Each island was classified according to the amount of water in the soil (flooded, wet or moist) and by the island form (elliptical or long).
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Collocations withflood

flood

These are words often used in combination with flood.

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annual flood
In their natural state, floodplains support diverse wildlife habitats, fisheries, and forests, whose productivity depend critically on the annualflood cycle.
catastrophic flood
We had our first catastrophicflood in 1953.
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