Word Finder - flood

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A (usually disastrous) overflow of water from a lake or other body of water due to excessive rainfall or other input of water.

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A large number or quantity of anything appearing more rapidly than can easily be dealt with.

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a flood of complaints

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The flowing in of the tide, opposed to the ebb.

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A floodlight.

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Menstrual discharge; menses.

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Water as opposed to land.

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To overflow, as by water from excessive rainfall.

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To cover or partly fill as if by a flood.

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The floor was flooded with beer.

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To provide (someone or something) with a larger number or quantity of something than can easily be dealt with.

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The station's switchboard was flooded with listeners making complaints.

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To paste numerous lines of text to (a chat system) in order to disrupt the conversation.

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To bleed profusely, as after childbirth.

Carmen felt warmth flood her face.

No stone left unturned until I see the blood of my tipster-nemesis flood the ground beneath her panicked body.

A soft light was beginning to flood the bedroom when she finally fell into an exhausted sleep.

In a flood of tears and half-controlled sobs she got to her feet, and handkerchief to her face, dashed across the room toward the entrance.

Midhat caused many of the dams to be destroyed and for some years occasional steamers were run between Meskene and Hillah in flood time, from April to August.

The flood of nations begins to subside into its normal channels.

The full import of his actions hit her, bringing a flood of warmth to her face.

The warmth returned to his eyes, chasing a flood of heat up her throat.

She neared him, sensing a flood of raw emotion she didn't understand.

It was like a switch to release the flood.

As a matter of fact, they are an alluvial deposit spread out by the same flood waters.

His son also died and became the national household deity of the Ahoms. The origin of mankind is connected with a flood legend.

How did the call center respond to the flood of interest?

She braced herself for a flood of his power, but it didn't come.

This underground network of old river-beds underlying the great alluvial plains must be filled to repletion before flood waters will flow over the surface.

Local annals specially mention the plague of 1648, the flood of 1651 and the earthquake of 1829.

His laughter sent a flood of warmth up her neck and into her face.

If the irrigator neglected to repair his dyke, or left his runnel open and caused a flood, he had to make good the damage done to his neighbours' crops, or be sold with his family to pay the cost.

His eloquence was now at the flood.

Another flood occurred in 1645.

Having by a great effort got away to the left from that flood of men, Kutuzov, with his suite diminished by more than half, rode toward a sound of artillery fire near by.

A flood of brilliant, joyful light poured from her transfigured face.

In consequence of the disastrous flood of 1882, important embankment works were executed along the Adige at a cost of £300,000.

Millions of commercial articles in metal-work, wood and ivory flood the European markets, and may be bought in any street in Europe at a small price, but they offer a variety of design and an excellence of workmanship which place them almost beyond Western competition.

In 1772 appeared a tract on The Principles of Bridges, suggested by the destruction of Newcastle bridge by a high flood on the 17th of November 1771.

These were the walling round of the Tower and the rebuilding of London Bridge, which had been almost destroyed by a flood.

They retained the belief that the germs of all things slept for ages within the dark flood, personified as Min or NU.

It is clear, however, that the primeval flood and the world-egg (out of which came heaven and earth) are referred to.

The island of Griend (or Grind) once boasted a walled town, which was destroyed by flood at the end of the 13th century.

We have seen that written documents have been preserved in Mesopotamia to which such a date as 4500 B.C. may be ascribed with a good deal of confidence; and that from the third millennium B.C. a flood of contemporary literary records comes to us both from Egypt and Mesopotamia.

At the outbreak of the Revolution in 1789, David was carried away by the flood of enthusiasm that made all the intellect of France believe in a new era of equality and emancipation from all the ills of life.

The first ended with the Flood, so that any consequences of Adam's sin were, strictly speaking, of limited duration.

The Bad Lands of the White river are also noted for their wealth of animal fossils, which have been found in such quantities as to cause geologists to believe that the vertebrates perished there in droves during a severe storm or flood.

The Gambia is in flood from November to June, when the Barraconda rapids are navigable by small boats.

The ordinary process before 1906 was to dam small streams and " coulees "(deep gulches in which water flows intermittently) and flood the surrounding country.

It is deep, fairly rapid, subject to a regular rise and flood every autumn, but not to sudden freshets, and is affected by the tide 50 m.

Their relentless use of water caused a flood in their lawn.

Sometimes, for instance, the excerpts from the older documents form long and complete narratives; in other cases (as in the account of the Flood) they consist of a number of short passages, taken alternately from two older narratives, and dovetailed together to make a continuous story; in the books of Judges and Kings the compiler has fitted together a series of older narratives in a framework supplied by himself; the Pentateuch and book of Joshua (which form a literary whole, and are now often spoken of together as the Hexateuch) have passed through more stages than the books just mentioned, and their literary structure is more complex.

The most disastrous occurred in 1875, 1856 and in 1770, when the flood level at Castets attained the record height of 422 ft.

Since fossils afford an immediate and generally a decisive clue to the mode of deposition of rocks, whether marine, lacustrine, fluviatile, flood plain or aeolian, they lead us naturally into palaeophysiography.

Matthew, and are shown to contain fluviatile or channel beds with water and river-living forms, and neighbouring flood-plain sediments containing remains of plains-living forms. Thus we may complete the former physiographic picture of a vast flood plain east of the Rocky Mountains, traversed by slowly meandering streams.

So man was made first of clay, but he was strengthless and senseless and melted in the water; then they made a race of wooden mannikins, but these were useless creatures without heart or mind, and they were destroyed by a great flood and pitch poured down on them from heaven, those who were left of them being turned into the apes still to be seen in the woods.

On account of the rapid deposition of sediment near the main channel at times of overflow, the flood plain, as is normally the case on mature valley floors, has a lateral slope of as much as 5, 10, or even 12 ft.

These changes become revolutionary in times of flood.

The highest flood is 3.5 ft.

The lowest flood on record has risen only to 5.5 ft.

It is a terrible river when in flood.

Flood fill to foreground - PLOT 136 to 143 Flood fill starting at the given point and continuing until foreground pixels are found.

Calm flood tides are best for spinning in the summer.

The geology of the earth actually is a beautiful mosaic of rock formations that confirm the historical veracity of Noah's Flood.