"flood" Definition

Definitions for the word "flood" from multiple English dictionaries.

1. v. i.
A great flow of water; a body of moving water; the flowing stream, as of a river; especially, a body of water, rising, swelling, and overflowing land not usually thus covered; a deluge; a freshet; an inundation.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. v. i.
The flowing in of the tide; the semidiurnal swell or rise of water in the ocean; -- opposed to ebb; as, young flood; high flood.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. v. i.
A great flow or stream of any fluid substance; as, a flood of light; a flood of lava; hence, a great quantity widely diffused; an overflowing; a superabundance; as, a flood of bank notes; a flood of paper currency.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. v. i.
Menstrual disharge; menses.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. v. t.
To overflow; to inundate; to deluge; as, the swollen river flooded the valley.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. v. t.
To cause or permit to be inundated; to fill or cover with water or other fluid; as, to flood arable land for irrigation; to fill to excess or to its full capacity; as, to flood a country with a depreciated currency.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. n.
1 a overflowing or influx of water, esp. Over land; inundation. B the water that overflows. 2 outpouring; torrent (flood of tears). 3 inflow of the tide (also in comb.: flood-tide).
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884

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