Main entry: outpouring, overflow, flood
Definition: a large flow
Definition: the act of flooding; filling to overflowing
Main entry: photoflood, flood, flood lamp, floodlight
Definition: light that is a source of artificial illumination having a broad beam; used in photography
Main entry: rising tide, flood, flood tide
Definition: the occurrence of incoming water (between a low tide and the following high tide)
Usage: a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune -Shakespeare
Main entry: flood, inundation, deluge, alluvion
Definition: the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land
Usage: plains fertilized by annual inundations
Main entry: flood, torrent, deluge, inundation
Definition: an overwhelming number or amount
Usage: a flood of requests; a torrent of abuse
Main entry: flood
Definition: cover with liquid, usually water
Usage: The swollen river flooded the village; The broken vein had flooded blood in her eyes
Main entry: flood
Definition: become filled to overflowing
Usage: Our basement flooded during the heavy rains
Main entry: swamp, flood, inundate, deluge
Definition: fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid
Usage: the basement was inundated after the storm; The images flooded his mind
Main entry: flood, oversupply, glut
Definition: supply with an excess of
Usage: flood the market with tennis shoes; Glut the country with cheap imports from the Orient