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flooded

/ˈflʌdɪd/ adjective B1
  1. Filled with water from rain or rivers.
  2. Filled with too much fluid.
  3. Overwhelmed with too much of something. · Our phones were flooded with calls after the controversial broadcast.
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The African sun flooded through the big, curtainless windows, and every detail of the great, bare, whitewashed dormitory stood out hard and clear.
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, p. 22 · B2
No living man could tell a Prescott from a Bank of England, and if I hadn't put him out he would have flooded London with them.
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, p. 94 · B2
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.
The Hound of the Baskervilles, p. 74 · C1
Over the following decades, an astonishing number of these paper slips flooded into the editor's workspace in Oxford.
A Dictionary Built by the People, p. 1 · C1

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