1. flood - noun
· the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land; "plains fertilized by annual inundations"
Synonym(s): inundation, deluge, alluvion
Hypernym(s): geological_phenomenon
2. flood - noun
· an overwhelming number or amount; "a flood of requests"; "a torrent of abuse"
Synonym(s): inundation, deluge, torrent
Hypernym(s): batch, deal, flock, good_deal, great_deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite_a_little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy_sum, wad
3. flood - noun
· light that is a source of artificial illumination having a broad beam; used in photography
Synonym(s): floodlight, flood_lamp, photoflood
Hypernym(s): light, light_source
4. flood - noun
· a large flow
Synonym(s): overflow, outpouring
5. flood - noun
· the act of flooding; filling to overflowing
Synonym(s): flowage
Hypernym(s): filling
6. flood - noun
· 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" -Shakespeare
Synonym(s): flood_tide, rising_tide
Hypernym(s): tide
Antonym(s): ebbtide
7. flood - verb
· fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid; "the basement was inundated after the storm"; "The images flooded his mind"
Synonym(s): deluge, inundate, swamp
Hypernym(s): fill, fill_up, make_full
8. flood - verb
· cover with liquid, usually water; "The swollen river flooded the village"; "The broken vein had flooded blood in her eyes"
Hypernym(s): cover, spread_over
9. flood - verb
· supply with an excess of; "flood the market with tennis shoes"; "Glut the country with cheap imports from the Orient"
Synonym(s): oversupply, glut
Hypernym(s): supply, provide, render, furnish
10. flood - verb
· become filled to overflowing; "Our basement flooded during the heavy rains"
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