Definition of floods Floods
/flʌˈdz/ - [fludz] -
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What does floods mean?
Wiktionary 
- floods (Noun)
Plural of flood.
Part of speech
🔤WordNet
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| flood - the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land; "plains fertilized by annual inundations" | ||
| inundation, deluge, alluvion | ||
| geological phenomenon a natural phenomenon involving the structure or composition of the earth | ||
| debacle a sudden and violent collapse | ||
| flash flood, flashflood a sudden local flood of great volume and short duration | ||
| flood - an overwhelming number or amount; "a flood of requests"; "a torrent of abuse" | ||
| inundation, deluge, torrent | ||
| muckle, mickle, quite a little, passel, slew, great deal, good deal, tidy sum, hatful, plenty, mountain, raft, spate, peck, batch, heap, wad, stack, flock, mess, mint, sight, lot, pile, mass, pot, deal as many or as much as a hat will hold | ||
| flood - the act of flooding; filling to overflowing | ||
| flowage | ||
| filling the act of filling something | ||
| flood - a large flow | ||
| overflow, outpouring | ||
| stream, flow dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas; "two streams of development run through American history"; "stream of consciousness"; "the flow of thought"; "the current of history" | ||
| flood - light that is a source of artificial illumination having a broad beam; used in photography | ||
| floodlight, flood lamp, photoflood | ||
| light source, light any device serving as a source of illumination; "he stopped the car and turned off the lights" | ||
| photographic equipment equipment used by a photographer | ||
| flood - 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 | ||
| flood tide, rising tide | ||
| tide the periodic rise and fall of the sea level under the gravitational pull of the moon | ||
Verb |
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| flood - cover with liquid, usually water; "The swollen river flooded the village"; "The broken vein had flooded blood in her eyes" | ||
| spread over, cover clothe, as if for protection from the elements; "cover your head!" | ||
| flood out, deluge, overwhelm fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid; "the basement was inundated after the storm"; "The images flooded his mind" | ||
| flow cover or swamp with water | ||
| inundate, deluge, submerge fill or cover completely, usually with water | ||
| swamp, drench drench or submerge or be drenched or submerged; "The tsunami swamped every boat in the harbor" | ||
| flood - supply with an excess of; "flood the market with tennis shoes"; "Glut the country with cheap imports from the Orient" | ||
| oversupply, glut | ||
| furnish, supply, provide, render provide or equip with furniture; "We furnished the house in the Biedermeyer style" | ||
| flood - become filled to overflowing; "Our basement flooded during the heavy rains" | ||
| fill up, fill eat until one is sated; "He filled up on turkey" | ||
| flood - fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid; "the basement was inundated after the storm"; "The images flooded his mind" | ||
| deluge, inundate, swamp | ||
| make full, fill up, fill eat until one is sated; "He filled up on turkey" | ||
| flood in arrive in great numbers | ||
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Wiktionary
- flood (Noun)
A usually disastrous overflow of water from a lake or other body of water due to excessive rainfall or other input of water. - flood (Noun)
A large number or quantity of anything appearing more rapidly than can easily be dealt with. - flood (Noun)
A floodlight. - flood (Verb)
To overflow. - flood (Verb)
To cover or partly fill as if by a flood. - flood (Verb)
To provide someone or something with a larger number or quantity of something than cannot easily be dealt with. - flood (Verb)
To paste numerous lines of text to a chat system in order to disrupt the conversation.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- flood (v. i.)
A great flow of water; a body of moving water; the flowing stream, as of a river; especially, a body of water, rising, swelling, and overflowing land not usually thus covered; a deluge; a freshet; an inundation. - flood (v. i.)
The flowing in of the tide; the semidiurnal swell or rise of water in the ocean; -- opposed to ebb; as, young flood; high flood. - flood (v. i.)
A great flow or stream of any fluid substance; as, a flood of light; a flood of lava; hence, a great quantity widely diffused; an overflowing; a superabundance; as, a flood of bank notes; a flood of paper currency. - flood (v. i.)
Menstrual disharge; menses. - flood (v. t.)
To overflow; to inundate; to deluge; as, the swollen river flooded the valley. - flood (v. t.)
To cause or permit to be inundated; to fill or cover with water or other fluid; as, to flood arable land for irrigation; to fill to excess or to its full capacity; as, to flood a country with a depreciated currency.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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An overflowing; an inundation or flood, especially when the water is charged with much suspended material.\n(Source: BJGEO) -
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An unusual accumulation of water above the ground caused by high tide, heavy rain, melting snow or rapid runoff from paved areas. -
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To cover with large amounts of water.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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flud, n. a great flow of water: (B.) a river: an inundation: a deluge: the rise or flow of the tide: any great quantity.—v.t. to overflow: to inundate: to bleed profusely, as after parturition:—pr.p. flood′ing; pa.p. flood′ed.—ns. Flood′-gate, a gate for letting water flow through, or to prevent it: an opening or passage: an obstruction; Flood′ing, an extraordinary flow of blood from the uterus; Flood′mark, the mark or line to which the tide rises; Flood′-tide, the rising or inflowing tide.—The Flood, the deluge in the days of Noah. [A.S. flód; Dut. vloed, Ger. fluth. Cog. with flow.]
Marine DictionaryUniversal Dictionary of the Marine ⚓️
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flood
and TIDE.
Proverbs DictionaryProverbs Dictionary 📗
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flood
A May flood never did good.
Wikipedia 
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Sometimes a river receives a lot of extra water. When this happens, the water overflows from its normal path in the river bed. This is called flooding, and is a natural disaster.
During a flood, people need to move themselves and their most precious valuables to higher ground quickly, if they can. The process of leaving your home behind in search of a safe place is called "evacuation".
Pollution of drinking water.
In a flood, there is plenty of water, but it is mostly polluted and not safe to drink. People can prepare for flooding by filling many containers with fresh clean drinking water.
