Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of overflowing or inundating; inundation.
- noun The menstrual discharge when excessive; also, hemorrhage after childbirth.
- 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.
- In an obsolete use, lavish or profuse.
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