Synonyms: outpouring, overflow, flood
Definition: a large flow
Definition: the act of flooding; filling to overflowing
Similar words: filling
Definition: the act of filling something
Synonyms: photoflood, flood, flood lamp, floodlight
Definition: light that is a source of artificial illumination having a broad beam; used in photography
Similar words: light, light source
Definition: any device serving as a source of illumination
Usage: he stopped the car and turned off the lights
Synonyms: 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
Similar words: tide
Definition: the periodic rise and fall of the sea level under the gravitational pull of the moon
Synonyms: 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
Similar words: geological phenomenon
Definition: a natural phenomenon involving the structure or composition of the earth
Synonyms: flood, torrent, deluge, inundation
Definition: an overwhelming number or amount
Usage: a flood of requests; a torrent of abuse
Similar words: batch, mint, mountain, muckle, peck, passel, tidy sum, deal, spate, sight, slew, stack, heap, hatful, good deal, great deal, wad, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, lot, mass, mess, mickle, flock
Definition: (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
Usage: a batch of letters; a deal of trouble; a lot of money; he made a mint on the stock market; see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos; it must have cost plenty; a slew of journalists; a wad of money
Synonyms: flood
Definition: cover with liquid, usually water
Usage: The swollen river flooded the village; The broken vein had flooded blood in her eyes
Synonyms: flood
Definition: become filled to overflowing
Usage: Our basement flooded during the heavy rains
Definition: become full
Usage: The pool slowly filled with water; The theater filled up slowly
Synonyms: 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
Similar words: fill, fill up, make full
Definition: make full, also in a metaphorical sense
Usage: fill a container; fill the child with pride
Synonyms: 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
Similar words: supply, render, provide, furnish
Definition: give something useful or necessary to
Usage: We provided the room with an electrical heater