Skip to definition.

Verb: flood  flúd
  1. Fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid
    "The images flooded his mind";
    - deluge, inundate, swamp
  2. Cover with liquid, usually water
  3. Supply with an excess of
    "flood the market with tennis shoes";
    - oversupply, glut
  4. Become filled to overflowing
    "Our basement flooded during the heavy rains"
Noun: flood  flúd
  1. The rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land
    "plains fertilized by annual floods";
    - inundation, deluge, alluvion
  2. An overwhelming number or amount
    "a flood of requests";
    - inundation, deluge, torrent
  3. Light that is a source of artificial illumination having a broad beam; used in photography
    - floodlight, flood lamp, photoflood
  4. A large flow
    - overflow, outpouring
  5. The act of flooding; filling to overflowing
    - flowage
  6. The occurrence of incoming water (between a low tide and the following high tide)
    - flood tide, rising tide

Derived forms: flooding, floods, flooded

See also: flood in, flood out

Type of: batch, bunch, cover, deal, fill, fill up, filling, flock, flow, furnish, geological phenomenon, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, light, light source, lot, make full, mass, mess, mickle [archaic], mint, mountain, muckle, passel [US], peck, pile, plenty, pot, provide, quite a little, raft, render, sight, slew, spate, spread over, stack, stream, supply, tide, tidy sum, wad

Part of: photographic equipment

Encyclopedia: Flood, California