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flood
English
Alternative forms
- floud (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English flod, from Old English fl?d, from Proto-West Germanic *fl?du, from Proto-Germanic *fl?duz, from *plew- (“to flow”). Cognate with Scots flude, fluid, Saterland Frisian Floud, Dutch vloed, German Flut, Danish flod, Icelandic flóð, and Gothic ???????????????????????? (fl?dus).
Pronunciation
- enPR: fl?d, IPA(key): /fl?d/
- Rhymes: -?d
Noun
flood (plural floods)
- A (usually disastrous) overflow of water from a lake or other body of water due to excessive rainfall or other input of water.
- Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations.
- (figuratively) A large number or quantity of anything appearing more rapidly than can easily be dealt with.
- The flowing in of the tide, opposed to the ebb.
- A floodlight.
- Menstrual discharge; menses.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Harvey to this entry?)
- (obsolete) Water as opposed to land.
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost
- Who beheld from the safe shore their floating carcasses and broken chariot-wheels. So thick bestrown, abject and lost, lay these, covering the flood, under amazement of their hideous change.
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- deluge
- diversion
- inundation
- torrent
Verb
flood (third-person singular simple present floods, present participle flooding, simple past and past participle flooded)
- To overflow, as by water from excessive rainfall.
- To cover or partly fill as if by a flood.
- The floor was flooded with beer.
- They flooded the room with sewage.
- (figuratively) To provide (someone or something) with a larger number or quantity of something than can easily be dealt with.
- (Internet, transitive, intransitive) To paste numerous lines of text to (a chat system) in order to disrupt the conversation.
- 1998, "Dr. Cat", Furry web site plug (on newsgroup alt.fan.furry)
- There's also a spam filter in the code now, so if someone attempts to flood people's screens with macros or a bot, everything after the first few lines is thrown away.
- 1998, "Dr. Cat", Furry web site plug (on newsgroup alt.fan.furry)
- To bleed profusely, as after childbirth.
Antonyms
- (overflow): drain
Synonyms
- (overflow): overfill
- (cover): inundate
- (provide with large number): inundate, swamp, deluge
Derived terms
Translations
References
Anagrams
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Middle English
Noun
flood
- Alternative form of flod
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from English flood.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /?fl?d??/
Noun
flood m (plural floods)
- (Internet slang) a flood of superfluous text messages
Related terms
- floodar
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diluvial
English
Etymology
Latin diluvium (“flood”)
Adjective
diluvial (not comparable)
- Relating to or produced by a flood or deluge.
- Pertaining to Noah's Flood.
Synonyms
- diluvian
Related terms
- deluge
- antediluvian
- diluvialism
Translations
French
Etymology
Latin diluvium (“flood”)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /di.ly.vjal/
Adjective
diluvial (feminine singular diluviale, masculine plural diluviaux, feminine plural diluviales)
- diluvial
Synonyms
- diluvial
Further reading
- “diluvial” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Spanish
Etymology
From diluvio +? -al, from Latin d?luvium (“flood”).
Adjective
diluvial (plural diluviales)
- diluvial
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