flood
/flʌd/ verbe B1En français : inonder, submerger, noyer, flooder
- 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 · Prétérit flooded · Participe passé flooded · Forme en -ing flooding
Formes du verbe
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- He/she/it
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- Prétérit
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- Participe passé
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- Forme en -ing
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Verbes à particule et expressions
Dans la bibliothèque
He saw a congested flood of wagons, trucks, cabs, vans and street cars filling the vast space where Broadway, Sixth Avenue and Thirty-fourth street cross one another as a twenty-six inch maiden fills her twenty-two inch girdle.
One day, a high summer flood washed him out of the burrow where he lived with his father and mother, and carried him, kicking and clucking, down a roadside ditch.
Its windows looked east and west; through the west one, looking out on the back yard, came a flood of mellow June sunlight; but the east one, whence you got a glimpse of the bloom white cherry-trees in the left orchard and nodding, slender birches down in the hollow by the brook, was greened over by a tangle of vines.
IT was broad daylight when Anne awoke and sat up in bed, staring confusedly at the window through which a flood of cheery sunshine was pouring and outside of which something white and feathery waved across glimpses of blue sky.
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