Flood

Definition:

(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.
(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.
(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.
(v. i.) Menstrual disharge; menses.
(v. t.) To overflow; to inundate; to deluge; as, the swollen river flooded the valley.
(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.

Compare flood with other words:

barrage vs. flood

flood vs. maroon

flood vs. marooned

flood vs. flook

flood vs. floor

flood vs. throng

flood vs. spray

flood vs. tornado

flood vs. postdiluvian

flood vs. floodage

flood vs. preflood

flood vs. overwash

flood vs. floodwall

flood vs. trickle

cloudburst vs. flood

flood vs. torrent

drought vs. flood

flood vs. stream

blood vs. flood

excess vs. flood

diluvium vs. flood

flood vs. flooder

flood vs. niagara

diluvian vs. flood

flood vs. freshet

flood vs. wildfire

flood vs. pervade

flood vs. nilometer

flood vs. genesis

flood vs. surge

flood vs. scroll

flood vs. flush

flood vs. paddy

flood vs. flooding

flood vs. inundation

drown vs. flood

flood vs. spurt

ejaculate vs. flood

flood vs. overwhelm

cataclysm vs. flood

antediluvian vs. flood

diluvial vs. flood

flood vs. outrage

deluge vs. flood

flood vs. swamp

flood vs. overfill

flood vs. inundate

flood vs. overflow

flood vs. menses

flood vs. rainfall

flood vs. water

flood vs. fresh

flood vs. spate