(n.) The filling or covering with water or other fluid; overflow; inundation; the filling anything to excess.
(n.) An abnormal or excessive discharge of blood from the uterus.
Example Sentences:
(1) One man has died in storms sweeping across the UK that have brought 100-mile-an-hour winds and led to more than 50 flood warnings being issued with widespread disruption on the road and rail networks in much of southern England and Scotland.
(2) Last November he bluntly warned EU chiefs he could, if he wished, “flood Europe” with refugees.
(3) During Pakistan's recent floods, Chinese aid totalled $18m; the US gave nearly $700m.
(4) During a single reversal trial of two 2-wk experimental periods, teats of all glands of 12 Holstein cows were subjected to a milking routine conducive to large vacuum fluctuations and flooded teat cups.
(5) In his interview, Smith accepts that the EA's response to the flooding has not been perfect.
(6) These changes led to a flooding of the alveoli with up to 40 times normal protein levels and a greater than fivefold increase in airway antiproteinase.
(7) The loss of summer sea ice has led to unusual warming of the Arctic atmosphere, that in turn impacts weather patterns in the northern hemisphere , that can result in persistent extreme weather such as droughts, heatwaves and flooding," she said.
(8) It will be protected from rising sea levels by a giant flood wall that environmental experts say could damage the communities further down the coast – and social justice campaigners have called the project a form of “climate apartheid” .
(9) As a result, low-lying areas, including Bangladesh, Florida, the Maldives and the Netherlands, will undergo catastrophic flooding, while in Britain large areas of the Norfolk Broads and the Thames estuary could disappear.
(10) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Many locals said they had never known the flooding this bad.
(11) Yu Xiangzhen, former Red Guard Photograph: Dan Chung for the Guardian Almost half a century on, it floods back: the hope, the zeal, the carefree autumn days riding the rails with fellow teenagers.
(12) "And secondly, there will also be help with sand bags, which could help prevent further flooding."
(13) Allen's team has used the new technique to work out whether global warming worsened the UK floods in autumn 2000, which inundated 10,000 properties, disrupted power supplies and led to train services being cancelled, motorways closed and 11,000 people evacuated from their homes - at a total cost of £1bn.
(14) Her home in nearby Burrowbridge just about escaped flooding but she spends four days a week doing volunteer work for those who were not so fortunate.
(15) The data discussed in this article were gathered through use of a retrospective cohort survey five years following a major flood in the Wyoming Valley of Pennsylvania.
(16) The solicitor did a search, they went through the parish records and local histories, they got a sworn statement from the vendors: in the 150-plus years since it was built, the farm had never flooded.
(17) The current floods in Australia have the potential to affect prices for commodities such as sugar and cane growers are warning of production problems for up to three years.
(18) Source: Reuters Dirty old river If the notion of an Englishman’s castle as his home is being challenged on the Levels, where scores of properties flooded, the bursting of the Thames from its banks a few hundred yards from the royal castle of Windsor has raised the issue to a new height.
(19) The malaria threat is part of a wider health emergency, with more than 20 million people affected by the floods struggling to cope as the winter approaches.
(20) The £180m a year scheme is to be paid for by a £10.50 levy on all home insurance, from homeowners who are not at elevated risk of flooding as well as those who are.
Swill
Definition:
(v. t.) To wash; to drench.
(n.) To drink in great draughts; to swallow greedily.
(n.) To inebriate; to fill with drink.
(v. i.) To drink greedily or swinishly; to drink to excess.
(n.) The wash, or mixture of liquid substances, given to swine; hogwash; -- called also swillings.
(n.) Large draughts of liquor; drink taken in excessive quantities.
Example Sentences:
(1) It's a small sample, consisting of the folk on the train to Kings Cross this lunchtime, but your MBM correspondent saw: several gentlemen swilling from cans of San Miguel and talking excitedly about the World Cup; two blonde women in frankly disorienting 1980s style football shorts waving flags; and a bloke sitting on his own necking a tin of pre-mixed gin and tonic.
(2) Then go beg the lady with the clipboard, while others swan past to join the cocktail-swilling vacationers swathed in white linen on the porch.
(3) Alastair Butler, a free-range pig farmer, said most pig farmers were against the reintroduction of swill feeding because of the "real risk" to their animals and livelihood.
(4) The Bank of England, the big energy companies and media groups such as Rupert Murdoch’swill all be watching particularly closely, having heard Corbyn warn he wants either to reduce their independence, bring them under more “social” control or break them up.
(5) It described the Pig Idea as a "superficially attractive concept, promoted by well-meaning people, but it is destined to fail because it is fundamentally unsafe, and the European Union will not be persuaded to lift its zero-tolerance ban on feeding swill to pigs."
(6) "Transplanting the Pirates Of The Caribbean aesthetic to the Wild Wild West proves disastrous in The Lone Ranger, an indigestible swill of forced humour and oversized, overbearing action sequences," he writes.
(7) It's what we expect of the modern detective: a solitary, whisky-swilling wolf, with a chip on the shoulder as big as a .38 and nights spent alone on a sofa that one suspects is covered in stains.
(8) Ten months since it finally receded, the foul brown floodwater that swilled knee-deep through Steve and Kay Wilton’s home for much of February has, it seems, left its mark on more than just their once-pristine 19th-century farmhouse.
(9) Further down Seoul Street, the huge Grandkhaan Irish Pub has been entertaining beer-swilling ex-pats and travellers since 2005.
(10) "There is a lot of [advertising] money swilling about the pot now Lite and the London Paper are going," says a senior Associated source.
(11) This neutralises and dilutes the acid that swills around after the breakdown of food by bacteria that normally live around your teeth and gums.
(12) "For these reasons, we believe the risk of swill feeding is just too great."
(13) The source of zinc was flaking galvanising from the inside of bins used to store swill before processing.
(14) Click here to view On his Acid Rap mixtape, which was downloaded 50,000 times the day it was released, Chance reveals himself to be more interested in the mind-expanding qualities of LSD than poppin' molly or swilling Grey Goose.
(15) Dr Gillian Lockwood, from the Midland Fertility Centre, suggested recently that as women are having babies later and later, young women should seriously consider freezing their ova in their early 20s for use in their late 30s – after their clichéd life of high-flying career, martini-swilling, cigarette-wafting and spanx-filling.
(16) The revelation is an insight into some of the tricks employed by clubs, agents and other middle men when such vast sums of money are swilling around before the transfer deadline.
(17) Under its proposals, it could be mandatory for food waste to be treated in centralised processing plants to ensure all swill was safe to be used as feed.
(18) The warm bath of mutualised treacle that swilled around Westminster at the beginning of the week has turned toxic.
(19) He was the absolute opposite of the chain-smoking, whiskey-swilling, bar-brawling father whom I had loved so dearly as a child and who was the reason that our lives had always been such utter mayhem.
(20) Yet, the band called Queen, the lead singer a tights-wearing Mercury, were going down a storm with the beer-swilling rockers who just didn't seem to be consciously aware of what was strutting before their eyes.