flood
/flʌd/ verbo B1En español: inundar, flodear, fludear, innundar
- To overflow, as by water from excessive rainfall. · People flooded into the streets in protest.· The basement flooded with rainwater.
- To cover or partly fill as if by a flood. · The floor was flooded with beer.· They flooded the room with sewage.
- To provide (someone or something) with a larger number or quantity of something than can easily be dealt with. · The station's switchboard was flooded with listeners making complaints.
- To paste numerous lines of text to (a chat system) in order to disrupt the conversation.
- To bleed profusely, as after childbirth.
He/she/it floods · Pasado flooded · Participio pasado flooded · Forma en -ing flooding
Formas del verbo
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- Forma en -ing
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Phrasal verbs y expresiones
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After a moment’s mournful silence, his heart overflowed, and he gave way to a flood of tears.
At last, about ten o’clock, and just as Dantès began to despair, steps were heard in the corridor, a key turned in the lock, the bolts creaked, the massy oaken door flew open, and a flood of light from two torches pervaded the apartment.
Some few minutes had elapsed, and the stranger began to show manifest signs of impatience, when a slight noise was heard outside the aperture in the roof, and almost immediately a dark shadow seemed to obstruct the flood of light that had entered it, and the figure of a man was clearly seen gazing with eager scrutiny on the immense space beneath him; then, as his eye caught sight of him in the mantle, he grasped a floating mass of thickly matted boughs, and glided down by their help to within three or four feet of the ground, and then leaped lightly on his feet.
As Sir Henry and I sat at breakfast the sunlight flooded in through the high mullioned windows, throwing watery patches of colour from the coats of arms which covered them.
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