Dictionary entry details
• FLOOD (noun)
Meaning:
The rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural phenomena
Synonyms:
inundation; flood; alluvion; deluge
Context example:
plains fertilized by annual inundations
Hypernyms ("flood" is a kind of...):
geological phenomenon (a natural phenomenon involving the structure or composition of the earth)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "flood"):
debacle (flooding caused by a tumultuous breakup of ice in a river during the spring or summer)
flash flood; flashflood (a sudden local flood of great volume and short duration)
Noachian deluge; Noah and the Flood; Noah's flood; the Flood ((Biblical) the great deluge that is said in the Book of Genesis to have occurred in the time of Noah; it was brought by God upon the earth because of the wickedness of human beings)
Meaning:
An overwhelming number or amount
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Synonyms:
deluge; flood; inundation; torrent
Context examples:
a flood of requests / a torrent of abuse
Hypernyms ("flood" is a kind of...):
batch; deal; flock; good deal; great deal; hatful; heap; lot; mass; mess; mickle; mint; muckle; peck; pile; plenty; pot; quite a little; raft; sight; slew; spate; stack; tidy sum; wad; whole lot; whole slew ((often followed by 'of') a large number or amount or extent)
Meaning:
Light that is a source of artificial illumination having a broad beam; used in photography
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
photoflood; floodlight; flood lamp; flood
Hypernyms ("flood" is a kind of...):
light; light source (any device serving as a source of illumination)
Holonyms ("flood" is a part of...):
photographic equipment (equipment used by a photographer)
Meaning:
A large flow
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
overflow; flood; outpouring
Hypernyms ("flood" is a kind of...):
flow; stream (the act of flowing or streaming; continuous progression)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "flood"):
effusion (flow under pressure)
Meaning:
The act of flooding; filling to overflowing
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
flowage; flood
Hypernyms ("flood" is a kind of...):
filling (the act of filling something)
Meaning:
The occurrence of incoming water (between a low tide and the following high tide)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural events
Synonyms:
rising tide; flood tide; flood
Context example:
a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune
Hypernyms ("flood" is a kind of...):
tide (the periodic rise and fall of the sea level under the gravitational pull of the moon)
• FLOOD (verb)
Meaning:
Fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
deluge; flood; inundate; swamp
Context examples:
the basement was inundated after the storm / The images flooded his mind
Hypernyms (to "flood" is one way to...):
fill; fill up; make full (make full, also in a metaphorical sense)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something with something
Also:
flood in (arrive in great numbers)
Meaning:
Cover with liquid, usually water
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Context examples:
The swollen river flooded the village / The broken vein had flooded blood in her eyes
Hypernyms (to "flood" is one way to...):
cover; spread over (form a cover over)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "flood"):
flow (cover or swamp with water)
deluge; inundate; submerge (fill or cover completely, usually with water)
drench; swamp (drench or submerge or be drenched or submerged)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s something
Also:
flood out (charge someone with too many tasks)
Meaning:
Supply with an excess of
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Synonyms:
oversupply; glut; flood
Context examples:
flood the market with tennis shoes / Glut the country with cheap imports from the Orient
Hypernyms (to "flood" is one way to...):
furnish; provide; render; supply (provide or furnish with)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody with something
Meaning:
Become filled to overflowing
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Context example:
Our basement flooded during the heavy rains
Hypernyms (to "flood" is one way to...):
fill; fill up (become full)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
