Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of overflowing or inundating; inundation.
- n. The menstrual discharge when excessive; also, hemorrhage after childbirth.
- In an obsolete use, lavish or profuse.
- n. A method of applying water for irrigation by permitting it to spread over nearly level ground, with or without restraining checks or small dikes built of earth. In wild flooding the water is turned upon the field and guided by a hoe or shovel, without the previous construction of checks. In the check or block system the land is graded to a certain extent and the water controlled by checks or dikes.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The filling or covering with water or other fluid; overflow; inundation; the filling anything to excess.
- n. (Med.) An abnormal or excessive discharge of blood from the uterus.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a technique used in behavior therapy; client is flooded with experiences of a particular kind until becoming either averse to them or numbed to them
Examples
“And I can tell you from my inability to get home from work tonight ... the flooding is a pretty big deal.”
“The Rio Lerma flooding is a mixed blessing of added water to Lake Chapala along with the disadvantage of added sediment.”
“AMIN: Gohar flicks through the TV channels to show us what he describes as a flooding of Egypt's satellite space.”
“Things, however, were trying for Nashville residents, among them country luminaries Kenny Chesney, Keith Urban, and Brad Paisley, who were affected by flooding from a storm.”
“The flooding is absolutely awful, and we owe the people there more attention.”
Dear President Obama #471: "Who'll volunteer for Tennessee?"
“Gulf Coast on Monday evening, but flooding from the storm's rain bands was already reported in at least one location, hours before Ida was expected to make landfall.”
“Even if Tomas retains its current incarnation as a depression, flooding is inevitable.”
The Huffington Post: Georgianne Nienaber: Time to Rebrand Haiti's Tent Cities as Tomas Approaches
“But if the potential for higher storm totals (around 3-4 or more) verifies, then flooding is a legitimate concern.”
The Washington Post: Moisture from tropics to feed D.C. rainmaker
“Minor to moderate coastal flooding is possible, as described by the National Weather Service in Wakefield, Va.”
The Washington Post: Moisture from tropics to feed D.C. rainmaker
“North Korea appears to have aided and joined with Iran in flooding the world with these counterfeit US 100 dollar bills.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘flooding’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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ENVI - water protection
surface system, supply, substrate, subsoil, superficial deposit, sub-basin, stream gaging sta..., spillway, stratification, surface fresh water, stop valve, sprinkler and 398 more...
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Walking in the rain
It's possible someone else has already made a list like this. Maybe their list includes piña coladas - I hope so. I'll be starting mine with a broken umbrella and slippery flip-flops, but feel free...
broken umbrella, slippery flip-flops, rain, worms, cold, wet, mud-luscious, puddle-wonderful, lightning, flooding, mud, storm-water runoff and 18 more...
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Aussie Rules
afl, sanfl, mark, behind, vfl, sydney swans, st kilda saints, collingwood magpies, brisbane lions, western bulldogs, melbourne demons, carlton blues and 91 more...
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OM3 Lesson 34
by the time, take of, wreck, interstate, radio, waiting list, prescription, fill, pharmacy, flood, rainstorm, common and 4 more...
Tweets
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dailyword We did this to Lucas at W.A.G. when he was first there.
Aug 3, 2012
hernesheir The menstrual discharge when excessive; also, hemorrhage after childbirth. --Century Dictionary Apr 14, 2011