flood

1. 1

   An overflow of a large amount of water (usually disastrous) from a lake or other body of water due to excessive rainfall or other input of water.

   • a covenant never to destroy the earth again by flood
   • Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations.
2. 2

   A large number or quantity of anything appearing more rapidly than can easily be dealt with.figuratively

   • a flood of complaints
3. 3

   The flowing in of the tide, opposed to the ebb.

   • There is a tide in the affairs of men, / Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.
   • It was ebb tide when she touched, and it was supposed that when the flood made she would float off again.
4. 4

   A floodlight.

5. 5

   Menstrual discharge; menses.

6. 6

   Water as opposed to land.obsolete

   • Who beheld from the safe shore their floating carcasses and broken chariot-wheels. So thick bestrown, abject and lost, lay these, covering the flood, under amazement of their hideous change.

1. 1

   To overflow, as by water from excessive rainfall.

   • People flooded into the streets in protest.
   • The basement flooded with rainwater.
2. 2

   To cover or partly fill as if by a flood.

   • The floor was flooded with beer.
   • They flooded the room with sewage.
3. 3

   To provide (someone or something) with a larger number or quantity of something than can easily be dealt with.figuratively

   • The station's switchboard was flooded with listeners making complaints.
4. 4

   To paste numerous lines of text to (a chat system) in order to disrupt the conversation.Internetambitransitive

   • There's also a spam filter in the code now, so if someone attempts to flood people's screens with macros or a bot, everything after the first few lines is thrown away.
5. 5

   To bleed profusely, as after childbirth.

ant. drain