flood
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Is flood a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (figuratively) A large number or quantity of anything appearing more rapidly than can easily be dealt with.Examples: "a flood of complaints"; "Deregulation of financial markets laid the groundwork for the subprime crisis in the United States, while a badly designed euro contributed to the debt crisis in Greece, and the Schengen system of open borders made it difficult to control the flood of refugees in Europe."figuratively
2. (obsolete) Water as opposed to land.Examples: "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."obsolete
verb (English)
1. (figuratively) To provide (someone or something) with a larger number or quantity of something than can easily be dealt with.Examples: "The station's switchboard was flooded with listeners making complaints."; "Blackburn offered nothing going forward in the opening period and that continued after the break, encouraging City to flood forward."; "The iconic Glenfinnan Viaduct was flooded with blue light to show support for the National Health Service staff treating Coronavirus patients."Synonyms: inundate, swamp, deluge, spamfiguratively
2. (Internet, ambitransitive) To paste numerous lines of text to (a chat system) in order to disrupt the conversation.Examples: "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."Internetambitransitive
name (English)
1. (biblical) The flood referred to in the Book of Genesis in the Hebrew Bible.Examples: "The result of the Dispensation of Conscience was that “all flesh had corrupted his way on the earth;” that “the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually ;” and God closed the second testing of the natural man with judgment—the Flood.[…] Out of the fearful judgment of the Flood God saved eight persons to whom, after the waters were assuaged, He gave the purified earth with ample power to govern it. This, Noah and his descendants were responsible to do."Synonyms: Deluge
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