Flood

Noun

 * 1) A (usually disastrous) overflow of water 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) A floodlight

Verb

 * 1) To overflow.
 * 2) To cover or partly fill as if by a flood.
 * 3)  To provide (someone or something) with a larger number or quantity of something than can easily be dealt with.
 * 4)  To paste numerous lines of text to a chat system in order to disrupt the conversation.

Adjectives for Flood
intoxicating; impetuous; sluggish; vitreous; soaking; mighty; torrential; creeping; short-lived; devastating; human; babbling; spring; savory; copious; seething; passing; brackish; fearful; crystal; maddened; foaming; phenomenal; raging; steaming; shining; redundant; weltering; unfathomable; shaded; disastrous; shallow; uncurling; surging; horned; isle-fretted; moon-lit; breaking; all-destroying advancing; overflowing; post-glacial drenching;  shedding;  glowing;  turbid sparkling; storied; wondrous; full; eternal main; wasteful; lashing; fiery; glassy; urgent; tranquil; azure; furious; unbroken frigid; ice-imprisoned; tropical; roaring all-engulfing; gathering; clearest; fretful unwelcome; poured-out; eddying; vaporous theoretic; wandering; widespread.

Verbs for Flood
abate—; ameliorate—; check—; dam—; guard against—s; halt—; mitigate—; recoil from—; stem—; swirl with—; unloose—; —cripples; —devastates; —inundates; — overwhelms; —recedes; —submerges; — sweeps away.

Adverbs for Flood
fatally; partially; impetuously; torrentially; devastatingly; untamably; copiously; seethingly; foamingly; phenomenally; ragingly; disastrously; drenchingly; sparklingly; furiously; roaringly; eddyingly.

Synonyms for Flood

 * (overflow): overfill
 * (cover): inundate
 * (provide with large number): inundate, swamp, deluge

Thesaurus
outburst flood, abundance, access, accession, accretion, accrual, accruement, accumulation, acres, addition, advance, affluence, aggrandizement, alluvion, alluvium, ample sufficiency, ampleness, amplification, amplitude, appreciation, arc, arc light, army, ascent, augmentation, avalanche, bags, ballooning, barrels, be prodigal with, bloating, bonanza, boom, boost, bountifulness, bountiousness, brash, broadening, buildup, bumper crop, burst of rain, bushel, cascade, cataclysm, cataract, choke, cloudburst, cluster, cohue, color filter, copiousness, countlessness, course, cover, crescendo, crowd, crush, current, debacle, deluge, development, dimmer, dip, direct tide, downfall, downflow, downpour, drencher, drift, drown, duck, dunk, ebb, ebb and flow, ebb tide, edema, elevation, embarras de richesses, engulf, engulfment, enlargement, enough, excess, expansion, extension, extravagance, extravagancy, exuberance, fertility, fill, float, floats, flock, flood the market, flood tide, flooding, floodlight, flow, flow back, flow in, flow on, flow out, flush, flux, flux and reflux, foison, footlights, foots, fresh, freshet, full measure, full tide, fullness, gain, galaxy, gelatin, generosity, generousness, glut, great abundance, great plenty, greatening, growth, gush, gushing rain, heap, heavy rain, high tide, high water, hike, horde, host, immerse, increase, increment, inflation, inundate, inundation, issue, jam, jump, klieg light, know no bounds, landslide, lavishness, leap, legion, liberality, liberalness, light plot, lights, limelight, load, lots, low tide, low water, lunar tide, luxuriance, luxuriate, make, marquee, mass, maximum, medium, mob, money to burn, more than enough, mountain, mounting, much, multiplication, multitude, myriad, myriads, neap, neap tide, nimiety, numerousness, ocean, oceans, opposite tide, opulence, opulency, outpouring, overabound, overabundance, overaccumulation, overbounteousness, overbrim, overcopiousness, overdose, overequip, overflow, overflowing, overfurnish, overgrow, overlavish, overlavishness, overluxuriance, overmeasure, overmuchness, overnumerousness, overplentifulness, overplenty, overpopulation, overprofusion, overprovender, overprovide, overprovision, overrun, overrunning, oversell, overspill, overspread, overstock, oversufficiency, oversupply, overswarm, overwhelm, panoply, peck, permeate, plash, plenitude, plenteousness, plentifulness, plenty, plethora, pour, pour on, pour out, pour over, press, prevalence, prodigality, productiveness, profuseness, profusion, proliferation, pullulate, quantities, quantity, rabble, rain, rainburst, rainspout, rainstorm, raise, redundancy, refluence, reflux, regurgitate, repleteness, repletion, rich harvest, rich vein, richness, riot, riotousness, rip, riptide, rise, river, rout, ruck, run, run over, run riot, rush, satiety, saturate, scads, scud, sea, set, shower, slop, slosh, sluice, snowballing, soaker, soaking rain, solar tide, spate, spill, spill out, spill over, spillage, spot, spotlight, spout, spread, spring tide, stream, submerge, submersion, substantiality, substantialness, superabound, superabundance, superfluity, superflux, surfeit, surge, surge back, surplus, swamp, swarm, sweep, swelling, teem, teemingness, thalassometer, the Deluge, the Flood, throng, tidal amplitude, tidal current, tidal current chart, tidal flow, tidal range, tidal wave, tide, tide chart, tide gate, tide gauge, tide race, tide rip, tidewater, tideway, tons, torrent, torrent of rain, trend, tumescence, up, upping, upsurge, upswing, uptrend, upturn, volume, washout, waterflood, waterspout, waxing, wealth, whelm, whelming, widening, world, worlds

Etymology
flod:, from flod:, from common Germanic *flōduz, from Proto-Indo-European *plō-tu-, derived from *pleu- "to flow". Near cognates include Flut: and Gothic  (flōdus).

Noun

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic:, فيضان
 * Armenian:
 * Basque: uholde
 * Bengali:
 * Bosnian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: inundació
 * Chamicuro:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 水浸
 * Mandarin:, 洪災, 洪灾, 水災, 水灾
 * Croatian: ,
 * Czech:, ,
 * Danish: oversvømmelse
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: ,
 * Estonian: üleujutus,
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: წყალდიდობა
 * German:, , ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: κατακλυσμός (kataklysmós)
 * Modern:
 * Haitian Creole:
 * Hebrew:, שיטפון
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:


 * Korean:, 홍수
 * Kurdish:, lêser , lês , avrabûn ,
 * Lao:
 * Latgalian:
 * Latin: ,
 * Latvian: plūdi, pali
 * Lithuanian: potvynis, poplūdis
 * Macedonian:
 * Malay:
 * Marathi:
 * Mongolian: үер
 * Norwegian: flom
 * Nynorsk: flaum
 * Persian:
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Quechua: nuyuy
 * Romanian: inundaţie
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbian:
 * Sicilian:
 * Slovene: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: ,
 * Swedish: översvämning
 * Tagalog:
 * Tamil: வெள்ளம்
 * Telugu:, వెల్లువ
 * Thai: ,
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: повінь
 * Urdu:
 * Vietnamese: ,
 * Walloon: grossès aiwes
 * Welsh: llifogydd
 * West Frisian: oerstreaming
 * Welsh: llifogydd
 * West Frisian: oerstreaming


 * Croatian:
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Greek:, χείμαρρος
 * Italian: marea, alluvione
 * Japanese:
 * Polish:, nawał, natłok, ,


 * Portuguese: dilúvio, enxurrada
 * Russian: наплыв
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: ,

Verb

 * Croatian: preplaviti
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:, , überfüllen
 * Greek:
 * ancient: κατακλύζω (kataklyzō)
 * modern: (plimmyrízo)
 * Italian: allagare, inondare, (river, intransitive) straripare


 * Japanese:
 * Latin: ,
 * Latvian: plūdi
 * Polish: zalewać
 * Romanian: revărsa
 * Slovene:
 * Swahili: ,
 * Swedish: svämma över, översvämma


 * Croatian: potopiti, poplaviti
 * Czech:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Greek: (plimmyrízo)


 * Italian: allagare, inondare
 * Polish: zalewać
 * Romanian: inunda, revărsa
 * Slovene: ,
 * Swahili:
 * Telugu: ముంచెత్తు (muMchettu), వెల్లువెత్తు (velluvettu)


 * Finnish: ,
 * Greek: (plimmyrízo)
 * Italian: inondare, subissare
 * Polish: zalewać


 * Slovene:
 * Swahili: ,
 * Telugu: ముంచెత్తు (muMchettu)


 * Portuguese:

Noun

 * 1)  A flood of superflous text messages

Related terms

 * floodar