Flood

What do we mean by flood?

An overflowing of water onto land that is normally dry. noun

A flood tide. noun

A large amount or number, especially when moving from one place to another: synonym: flow. noun

A floodlight, specifically a unit that produces a beam of intense light. noun

In the Bible, the covering of the earth with water that occurred during the time of Noah. noun

To cover or submerge with water; inundate. intransitive verb

To move into or fill in large numbers or amounts. intransitive verb

To overwhelm in large numbers. intransitive verb

To put too much fuel into the carburetor of (an engine), resulting in unsuccessful ignition. intransitive verb

To become inundated or submerged. intransitive verb

To pour forth; overflow. intransitive verb

To overflow; inundate; deluge, literally or figuratively: as, to flood a building or a mine in order to extinguish a fire; to flood a meadow.

To be poured out abundantly; rise in a flood.

To have an excessive menstrual discharge; also, to bleed profusely after parturition; suffer post-partum hemorrhage; flow, as a lying-in woman.

See splash, 4.

A large, broad body of water; main tide. noun

The main ocean; main sea. noun

Flowing water; a stream, especially a great stream; a river. noun

A great body of water; the sea. noun

A great body of moving water, rising, swelling, and overflowing land not usually covered with water; a deluge; an inundation. noun

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

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

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

A floodlight.

Menstrual discharge; menses.

Water as opposed to land.

Words that are spelled similarly to flood:
flood, food, blood, floor, floop, floyd, flook, floud, lood, flod, floom, floot, flooz, glood.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word flood:
dwindling, levee, inundated, floods, spillway, mitigation, flooding, washed, basalt, flooded, plain, dams, dam, waters, irrigation, downstream, plains, rains, ark, hydroelectric, prone, noah, swept, reservoir, geology, damage, upstream, devastated, drought, disaster, rainfall, insurance, relief, submerged, tide, damages, debris, drainage, prevention, control, discharge, erosion, contracts, rain, watershed, victims, basin, bases, warning, river, gates, affected, rivers, damaged, hurricane, recreation, destroyed, water, flow, occurred, barrier, protection, flash, index, flows, storm, bridges, caused, worst, navigation, homes, bridge, rebuilt, mississippi, storage, canyon, canal, risk, creek, costs, stream.

Words that rhyme with flood:
blood, stud, bud, mud, crud, scud, dud, spud, hud, thud, lifeblood, rudd, scrid, rud, bad blood, blue blood, clwyd, redbud, sudd, ehud, blueblood, judd, budd, nudd, mudd, flud, strid, half blood, drag through the mud, in cold blood, shed blood, cudd, press stud, budde, youngblood, clsid, flower bud, stump spud, venous blood, mixed bud, arterial blood, cancer of the blood, drilling mud, leaf bud, full blood, fludd, uhde, trueblood, california redbud, western redbud, artificial blood, menstrual blood, cold-blood, dudd, lebudde.

Adjectives that are often used to describe flood:
great, full, sudden, annual, high, mighty, year, disastrous, veritable, big, devastating, major, overwhelming, universal, maximum, vast, heavy, recent, terrible, biblical, golden, dark, yellow, severe, catastrophic, destructive, worst, greatest, highest, crimson, warm, fresh, wide, huge, worldwide, fiery, massive, brown, tremendous, wild, unprecedented, broad, violent, red, angry, probable, mean, perfect, turbid, enormous, constant, crystal, global, extraordinary, irresistible, passionate, cold, surging, immense, largest, perilous, hot, endless, copious, rich, muddy, impending, torrential, purple, extreme, briny, turbulent, incoming, continuous, resistless.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective flood:
tide, gates, control, water, plains, waters, gate, time, frequency, plain, lights, lighting, tides, level, prevention, flow, hazard, damage, mark, page, wave, wood, season, protection, proofing, levels, basalt, flows, light, basin, warnings, myths, deposits, victims, marks, lands, recession, insurance, discharge, waves, events, story, slides, lamps, mitigation, banks, storm, stories, relief, myth, losses, zone, hazards, discharges, detention, channel, beam, stream, grounds, pulse, currents, bed, disasters, legend, hydrographs, channels, prone, storage, legends, danger, crest, defence, era, retreat, irrigation, lamp, embankments, meadows, bank, reduction, out.

Consonant match to flood:
flawed, fled, floyd, flied, flayed, flewed, flowed, flud, flad, fludd.

Words that sound like flood:
flood, flud, fludd, fled, flid, flawed, floyd, flowed, fleed, flied, flayed, flod, flut, flad, floud, flewed, fleadh, flit, flet, flett, flitt, flight, flat, float, flute, fluid, fleet, floods, flout, fla, fudd, flot, flate, felid, flote, fluet, flite, flatt, flaut, flyte, flubbed, flott, fld, flooder, fland, flete, flia, phid, flotte, olid, fed, flared, fid, fledged, fidh, fedd, fluide, fyd, fidd, fleered, fade, feed, flee, flaw, flew, flea, feud, fad, fied, eyelid, flay, fide, flamed, fead, flagged, flage, faid, flas, eye lid, fli, fallowed, flailed, fede, eilidh, fahd, filleted, fadd, feid, fayed, fley, flammed, fallot, faade, fleigh, flawy, aflat, fadh, filate, flew high, fligh high.