Dictionary Entry
flood
flood is a 5-letter English word with 16 senses as intransitive verb, transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 10 · 16 senses
Definitions
- 1intransitive verb
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.
- 2intransitive verb
The flowing in of the tide; the semidiurnal swell or rise of water in the ocean; -- opposed to ebb; as, young flood; high flood.
- 3intransitive verb
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.
- 4intransitive verb
Menstrual disharge; menses.
- 5transitive verb
To overflow; to inundate; to deluge; as, the swollen river flooded the valley.
- 6transitive verb
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.
- 7noun
a large flow
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- 8noun
the act of flooding; filling to overflowing
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- 9noun
light that is a source of artificial illumination having a broad beam; used in photography
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- 10noun
the occurrence of incoming water (between a low tide and the following high tide) -Shakespeare
"a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune"
- 11noun
the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land
"plains fertilized by annual inundations"
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- 12noun
an overwhelming number or amount
"a flood of requests"
"a torrent of abuse"
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- 13verb
cover with liquid, usually water
"The swollen river flooded the village"
"The broken vein had flooded blood in her eyes"
- 14verb
become filled to overflowing
"Our basement flooded during the heavy rains"
- 15verb
fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid
"the basement was inundated after the storm"
"The images flooded his mind"
- 16verb
supply with an excess of
"flood the market with tennis shoes"
"Glut the country with cheap imports from the Orient"
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