Definition as Noun

• the occurrence of incoming water (between a low tide and the following high tide)
• light that is a source of artificial illumination having a broad beam; used in photography
• the act of flooding; filling to overflowing
• the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land
• an overwhelming number or amount
• a large flow

Definition as Verb

• cover with liquid, usually water
• become filled to overflowing
• fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid
• supply with an excess of

• flood tide, rising tide

• floodlight, flood lamp, photoflood

• flowage

• inundation, deluge, alluvion

• inundation, deluge, torrent

• overflow, outpouring

• deluge, inundate, swamp

• oversupply, glut

• "a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune" -Shakespeare

• "plains fertilized by annual inundations"

• "a flood of requests"; "a torrent of abuse"

• "The swollen river flooded the village"; "The broken vein had flooded blood in her eyes"

• "Our basement flooded during the heavy rains"

• "the basement was inundated after the storm"; "The images flooded his mind"

• "flood the market with tennis shoes"; "Glut the country with cheap imports from the Orient"

• Flood vs flood tide
• Flood vs rising tide
• Flood vs floodlight
• Flood vs flood lamp
• Flood vs photoflood
• Flood vs flowage
• Flood vs inundation
• Flood vs deluge
• Flood vs alluvion
• Flood vs torrent
• Flood vs overflow
• Flood vs outpouring
• Flood vs inundate
• Flood vs swamp
• Flood vs oversupply
• Flood vs glut