flood

Forms

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.
2.A large number or quantity of anything appearing more rapidly than can easily be dealt with.
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.
- The flood had made, the wind was nearly calm, and being bound down the river, the only thing for us was to come to and wait for the turn of the tide.
4.A floodlight.

1.To overflow, as by water from excessive rainfall.
- People flooded into the streets in protest.
- The basement flooded with rainwater.
2.To provide (someone or something) with a larger number or quantity of something than can easily be dealt with.
- 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.
3.To paste numerous lines of text to (a chat system) in order to disrupt the conversation.
- 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.
4.To cover or partly fill as if by a flood.
- The floor was flooded with beer.
- They flooded the room with sewage.

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From Middle English flod, from Old English flōd, from Proto-West Germanic *flōdu, from Proto-Germanic *flōduz, from *plew- (“to flow”).