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

1. intransitive 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.
2. intransitive 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.
3. intransitive 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.
4. intransitive verb. Menstrual disharge; menses.
5. transitive verb. To overflow; to inundate; to deluge; as, the swollen river flooded the valley.
6. transitive 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.
7. noun. a large flow

   Synonyms: outpouring, overflow

8. noun. the act of flooding; filling to overflowing

   Synonyms: flowage

9. noun. light that is a source of artificial illumination having a broad beam; used in photography

   Synonyms: floodlight, photoflood

10. noun. 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"

11. noun. the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land

    "plains fertilized by annual inundations"

    Synonyms: alluvion, deluge, inundation

12. noun. an overwhelming number or amount

    "a flood of requests"

    "a torrent of abuse"

    Synonyms: deluge, inundation, torrent

13. verb. cover with liquid, usually water

    "The swollen river flooded the village"

    "The broken vein had flooded blood in her eyes"

14. verb. become filled to overflowing

    "Our basement flooded during the heavy rains"

15. verb. fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid

    "the basement was inundated after the storm"

    "The images flooded his mind"

    Synonyms: deluge, inundate, swamp

16. verb. supply with an excess of

    "flood the market with tennis shoes"

    "Glut the country with cheap imports from the Orient"

    Synonyms: glut, oversupply

Synonyms

outpouring, overflow, flowage, floodlight, photoflood, alluvion, deluge, inundation, torrent, inundate, swamp, glut, oversupply

Common word forms

floods, flooded, flooder, flooding, floodable, floodless

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