Definitions
Wiktionary
- adj. Filled with water from rain or rivers.
- adj. Filled with too much fluid.
- adj. Hence : Overwhelmed with too much of something.
- v. Simple past tense and past participle of flood.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. covered or overflowing with water.
- adj. filled to overflowing as if with water.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. covered with water
Examples
“The waste flooded from a storage reservoir when a retaining wall collapsed.”
“Two weeks ago, in flooded regions of Pakistan, 99 confirmed cholera cases were reported.”
The Huffington Post: Joe Amon: Why Democracies Don't Get Cholera
“Congrats, can't believe the river was not flooded from the melted snow and rain. congrats on a good day fishing”
“Heavy rain flooded roads and snarled public transportation throughout Greater New York, creating headaches for morning commuters.”
“In Mississippi, the state department of environmental quality is urging all residents in flooded regions to have their wells tested for contamination.”
“I am going to set up a field next season for duck hunting in flooded corn, water maybe a foot deep or so.”
“Traffic was a mess, and one of the roads in flooded out.”
Radiohead: Flooding Forces Fans To Circle Parking Lot For 3 Hours - The Consumerist
“The Broward courthouse recently flooded from a burst pipe, and the taxpayers have no intent to repair it.”
“Common species in flooded forests are Caraipa grandiflora, Virola surinamensis, Euterpe oleraceae, Ficus pulchella, Mauritia martiana, Symphonia globulifera, and species of Tovomita and Clusia.”
“The Fox River has once again flooded the Modernist icon and left soiled marble floors and ruined wood paneling.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘flooded’.
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You're All Wet!
Wet words
dripping, soaked, flooded, drenched, plastered, flowing, wringing, torrential, h2o'd, splashed, skeezing, thirsted and 21 more...
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spicolli's Words
terrapin, ravenous, fuck, sepulchral, garlic, suss, queer, curmudgeon, foodie, intricate, omphalos, subversion and 534 more...
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stories of the gentle fall
Words that have an extra layer of meaning and resonance to me for having appeared in Vienna Teng's beautiful works.
analogies, endlessly, satellite, bright-eyed, illumination, temple, overcome, labyrinth, harbor, gravity, horizon, shoreline and 6 more...
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Words I Probably Overuse
queue, hopefully, desultory, presumably, arguably, insane, fuck, illicit, ploy, dregs, lurid, ginormous and 9 more...
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