flood
/flʌd/ noun A2- An overflow of a large amount of water (usually disastrous) from a lake or other body of water due to excessive rainfall or other input of water.
- A large number or quantity of anything appearing more rapidly than can easily be dealt with. · a flood of complaints
- The flowing in of the tide, opposed to the ebb.
- A floodlight.
- Menstrual discharge; menses.
Plural floods
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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After a moment’s mournful silence, his heart overflowed, and he gave way to a flood of tears.
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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