Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of overflowing or inundating; inundation.
- noun The menstrual discharge when excessive; also, hemorrhage after childbirth.
- In an obsolete use, lavish or profuse.
- noun A method of applying water for irrigation by permitting it to spread over nearly level ground, with or without restraining checks or small dikes built of earth.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The filling or covering with water or other fluid; overflow; inundation; the filling anything to excess.
- noun (Med.) An abnormal or excessive discharge of blood from the uterus.
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- verb Present participle of
flood . - noun An act of flooding; a
flood orgush .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a technique used in behavior therapy; client is flooded with experiences of a particular kind until becoming either averse to them or numbed to them
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Examples
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And I can tell you from my inability to get home from work tonight ... the flooding is a pretty big deal.
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The Rio Lerma flooding is a mixed blessing of added water to Lake Chapala along with the disadvantage of added sediment.
Rio Lerma 2007
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AMIN: Gohar flicks through the TV channels to show us what he describes as a flooding of Egypt's satellite space.
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Even if Tomas retains its current incarnation as a depression, flooding is inevitable.
Georgianne Nienaber: Time to Rebrand Haiti's Tent Cities as Tomas Approaches Georgianne Nienaber 2010
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Even if Tomas retains its current incarnation as a depression, flooding is inevitable.
Georgianne Nienaber: Time to Rebrand Haiti's Tent Cities as Tomas Approaches Georgianne Nienaber 2010
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Things, however, were trying for Nashville residents, among them country luminaries Kenny Chesney, Keith Urban, and Brad Paisley, who were affected by flooding from a storm.
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The flooding is absolutely awful, and we owe the people there more attention.
Dear President Obama #471: "Who'll volunteer for Tennessee?" 2010
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But if the potential for higher storm totals (around 3-4 or more) verifies, then flooding is a legitimate concern.
Moisture from tropics to feed D.C. rainmaker Jason Samenow 2010
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Gulf Coast on Monday evening, but flooding from the storm's rain bands was already reported in at least one location, hours before Ida was expected to make landfall.
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Even if Tomas retains its current incarnation as a depression, flooding is inevitable.
Georgianne Nienaber: Time to Rebrand Haiti's Tent Cities as Tomas Approaches Georgianne Nienaber 2010
hernesheir commented on the word flooding
The menstrual discharge when excessive; also, hemorrhage after childbirth. --Century Dictionary
April 14, 2011
dailyword commented on the word flooding
We did this to Lucas at W.A.G. when he was first there.
August 3, 2012