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Meaning of flood

- A great flow of water; a body of moving water; the flowing stream, as of a river; especially, a body of water, rising, swelling, and overflowing land not usually thus covered; a deluge; a freshet; an inundation.
- The flowing in of the tide; the semidiurnal swell or rise of water in the ocean; -- opposed to ebb; as, young flood; high flood.
- A great flow or stream of any fluid substance; as, a flood of light; a flood of lava; hence, a great quantity widely diffused; an overflowing; a superabundance; as, a flood of bank notes; a flood of paper currency.
- Menstrual disharge; menses.
- To overflow; to inundate; to deluge; as, the swollen river flooded the valley.
- To cause or permit to be inundated; to fill or cover with water or other fluid; as, to flood arable land for irrigation; to fill to excess or to its full capacity; as, to flood a country with a depreciated currency.

Crossword clue for flood

- Deluge
- Drench
- Lots of water left in food
- Oversupply (market)
- Overwhelming quantity
- Teem
- Wipe out