Synonyms for Flood
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1. Floodnoun

   Synonyms:
   inundate, deluge, overfill, swamp, Deluge

2. floodverb

   The flood referred to in the Book of Genesis in the Old Testament.

   Synonyms:
   Deluge, swamp, overfill, deluge, inundate

3. floodverb

   A large number or quantity of anything appearing more rapidly than can easily be dealt with.

   Synonyms:
   deluge, overfill, inundate, swamp

4. floodverb

   A floodlight

   The station's switchboard was flooded with listeners making complaints.

   Synonyms:
   swamp, overfill, inundate, deluge

5. floodverb

   To paste numerous lines of text to a chat system in order to disrupt the conversation.

   Synonyms:
   deluge, inundate, overfill, swamp

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. flood

   Synonyms:
   deluge, inundation, abundance

   Antonyms:
   drought, drain, ebb, scarcity, subsidence

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1. flood, inundation, deluge, alluvionnoun

   the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land

   "plains fertilized by annual inundations"

   Synonyms:
   alluvial sediment, waterspout, pelter, soaker, deluge, floodlight, cloudburst, rising tide, overflow, alluvial deposit, flood, downpour, alluvion, alluvium, flowage, inundation, flood tide, flood lamp, photoflood, outpouring, torrent

2. flood, inundation, deluge, torrentnoun

   an overwhelming number or amount

   "a flood of requests"; "a torrent of abuse"

   Synonyms:
   waterspout, pelter, soaker, deluge, floodlight, cloudburst, rising tide, overflow, violent stream, flood, downpour, alluvion, flowage, inundation, flood tide, flood lamp, photoflood, outpouring, torrent

3. flood, floodlight, flood lamp, photofloodnoun

   light that is a source of artificial illumination having a broad beam; used in photography

   Synonyms:
   flood lamp, rising tide, floodlight, flood tide, overflow, outpouring, torrent, flowage, deluge, inundation, flood, alluvion, photoflood

4. flood, overflow, outpouringnoun

   a large flow

   Synonyms:
   outflow, run, deluge, overspill, onslaught, runoff, discharge, rising tide, overflow, gush, spring, flood, torrent, natural spring, alluvion, flowage, inundation, flood tide, flood lamp, bombardment, fountain, photoflood, outpouring, barrage, flush, floodlight

5. flood, flowagenoun

   the act of flooding; filling to overflowing

   Synonyms:
   flood lamp, rising tide, floodlight, flood tide, overflow, outpouring, torrent, flowage, deluge, inundation, flood, alluvion, photoflood

6. flood tide, flood, rising tideverb

   the occurrence of incoming water (between a low tide and the following high tide)

   "a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune" -Shakespeare

   Synonyms:
   flood lamp, rising tide, floodlight, flood tide, overflow, outpouring, climax, torrent, flowage, deluge, inundation, flood, alluvion, photoflood

7. deluge, flood, inundate, swampverb

   fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid

   "the basement was inundated after the storm"; "The images flooded his mind"

   Synonyms:
   submerge, oversupply, swamp, flood out, glut, inundate, overwhelm, deluge, flood, drench

8. floodverb

   cover with liquid, usually water

   "The swollen river flooded the village"; "The broken vein had flooded blood in her eyes"

   Synonyms:
   glut, swamp, deluge, inundate, oversupply

9. flood, oversupply, glutverb

   supply with an excess of

   "flood the market with tennis shoes"; "Glut the country with cheap imports from the Orient"

   Synonyms:
   stuff, scarf out, gorge, deluge, pig out, gourmandize, oversupply, swamp, englut, glut, satiate, overgorge, flood, overindulge, inundate, engorge, binge, gormandize, ingurgitate, overeat, gormandise

10. floodverb

    become filled to overflowing

    "Our basement flooded during the heavy rains"

    Synonyms:
    glut, swamp, deluge, inundate, oversupply

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   • Light
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Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. floodnoun

   Synonyms:
   inundation, deluge, overflow, freshet

2. floodnoun

   Synonyms:
   great flow

3. floodverb

   Synonyms:
   overflow, inundate, deluge, flow

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1. floodnoun

   Synonyms:
   deluge, inundation, overflow, cataclysm, freshet

   Associated words:
   antediluvial, antediluvian, diluvial, diluvian, alluvium, alluvial, alluvion

2. floodverb

   Synonyms:
   inundate, deluge, overflow, submerge

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "flood":

   flooding, floods, inundation, deluge, avalanche, influx, raw, floodwater, freshet, flow, torrent, wave, inundate

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1. Christopher Pearce Cranch:

   If there comes a little thaw, Still the air is chill and raw, Here and there a patch of snow, Dirtier than the ground below, Dribbles down a marshy flood Ankle-deep you stick in mud In the meadows while you sing, This is Spring.

2. Auguste Rodin:

   There is a continual exchange of ideas between all minds of a generation. Journalists, popular novelists, illustrators, and cartoonists adapt the truths discovered by the powerful intellects for the multitude. It is like a spiritual flood, like a gush that pours into multiple cascades until it forms the great moving sheet of water that stands for the mentality of a period.

3. Farhad Alavi:

   There is just this bottleneck caused by OFAC's inability to respond quickly because of the flood of applications and inquiries.

4. Thoru Ram:

   Earlier there used to be a lot of trees in the upper reaches but now the mountains are denuded. The trees along the rivers which worked as a flood defense have disappeared in the past few years and hardly any new trees have come up in their place.

5. Koen Olthuis:

   One of the best projects I've seen to cope with climate-related disasters is Bangkok in 1850. The city was 90 percent on water - living on barges on water, there was no flood risk, there was no damage. The water came, the houses moved up and down.