- a great flowing or overflowing of water, especially over land not usually submerged.
- any great outpouring or stream: a flood of emotions;a flood of requests;a flood of patients.
- a universal deluge recorded in the Bible as having occurred in the days of Noah. Genesis 7.
- the rise or flowing in of the tide (opposed to ebb).
- a floodlight.
- a large body of water.
- to overflow in or cover with a flood; fill to overflowing: Don't flood the bathtub.
- to cover or fill, as if with a flood: The road was flooded with cars.
- to overwhelm with an abundance of something: to be flooded with mail.
- to supply too much fuel to (the carburetor), so that the engine fails to start.
- to floodlight.
- to flow or pour in or as if in a flood.
- to rise in a flood; overflow.
- Pathology.
- to suffer uterine hemorrhage, especially in connection with childbirth.
- to have an excessive menstrual flow.
- the inundation of land that is normally dry through the overflowing of a body of water, esp a river
- the state of a river that is at an abnormally high level (esp in the phrase in flood)
- a great outpouring or flow
- the rising of the tide from low to high water
- (as modifier)
- theatre short for floodlight
- a large body of water, as the sea or a river
- (of water) to inundate or submerge (land) or (of land) to be inundated or submerged
- to fill or be filled to overflowing, as with a flood
- to flow; surge
- to supply an excessive quantity of petrol to (a carburettor or petrol engine) or (of a carburettor, etc) to be supplied with such an excess
- to rise to a flood; overflow
- (intr)
- to bleed profusely from the uterus, as following childbirth
- to have an abnormally heavy flow of blood during a menstrual period
- the flood extending over all the earth from which Noah and his family and livestock were saved in the ark. (Genesis 7–8); the Deluge
- Henry . 1732–91, Anglo-Irish politician: leader of the parliamentary opposition to English rule
