flood
the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land
How often you will meet it
Rank 2,859 of 86,757 words measured. It occurs 46,399 times across 426,181 published chapters — 0.003% of every word in the library.
What it means
noun
- the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land also: inundation, deluge, alluvion plains fertilized by annual inundations
- an overwhelming number or amount also: inundation, deluge, torrent a flood of requestsa torrent of abuse
- light that is a source of artificial illumination having a broad beam; used in photography also: floodlight, flood lamp, photoflood
- a large flow also: overflow, outpouring
- the act of flooding; filling to overflowing also: flowage
- the occurrence of incoming water (between a low tide and the following high tide) also: flood tide, rising tide a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune
verb
- fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid also: deluge, inundate, swamp the basement was inundated after the stormThe images flooded his mind
- cover with liquid, usually water The swollen river flooded the villageThe broken vein had flooded blood in her eyes
flood in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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He was the one who rode through town and warned people that the flood was coming.
The Haunted Fountain: A Judy Bolton Mystery · Margaret Sutton · Chapter 1
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Poor straws! on the dark flood we catch awhile, Cling, and are borne into the night apart.
Selected Poems · Rupert Brooke · Chapter 1
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Two Pots, one of earthenware and the other of brass, were carried away down a river in flood.
The Two Pots · Aesop · Chapter 1
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He is a Leaguer out and out--one who would rise to fortune on the flood tide of the mob?
For the Cause · Stanley John Weyman · Chapter 1
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For thee the cosmic forces did The rearing of that pyramid, The prescient ages shaping with Fire, flood, and frost thy monolith.
Personal Poems I — Volume IV · John Greenleaf Whittier · Chapter 1