flood

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun 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.
• intransitive verb 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.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun A large, broad body of water; main tide.
• noun The main ocean; main sea.
• 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.
• 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 The inflow of the tide; the semidiurnal rise or swell of water in the ocean: opposed to ebb.
• noun A great body or stream of any fluid or fluidlike substance; anything resembling such a stream: as, a flood of lava; a flood of light.
• noun Hence A great quantity; an overflowing abundance; a superabundance.
• noun The menstrual discharge when excessive.
• See splash, 4.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun 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.
• noun The flowing in of the tide; the semidiurnal swell or rise of water in the ocean; -- opposed to ebb
• noun A great flow or stream of any fluid substance; ; hence, a great quantity widely diffused; an overflowing; a superabundance
• noun Menstrual disharge; menses.
• noun (Naut.) , the anchor by which a ship is held while the tide is rising.
• noun a fence so secured that it will not be swept away by a flood.
• noun a gate for shutting out, admitting, or releasing, a body of water; a tide gate.
• noun the mark or line to which the tide, or a flood, rises; high-water mark.
• noun the rising tide; -- opposed to ebb tide.
• noun the deluge in the days of Noah.
• transitive verb To overflow; to inundate; to deluge.
• transitive verb To cause or permit to be inundated; to fill or cover with water or other fluid; ; to fill to excess or to its full capacity.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun A (usually disastrous) overflow of water from a lake or other body of water due to excessive rainfall or other input of water.
• noun figuratively A large number or quantity of anything appearing more rapidly than can easily be dealt with.
• noun A floodlight
• verb To overflow.
• verb To cover or partly fill as if by a flood.
• verb figuratively To provide (someone or something) with a larger number or quantity of something than cannot easily be dealt with.
• verb Internet, computing To paste numerous lines of text to a chat system in order to disrupt the conversation.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun a large flow
• noun the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land
• verb supply with an excess of
• noun the act of flooding; filling to overflowing
• verb fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid
• verb become filled to overflowing
• verb cover with liquid, usually water