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say it: fluhd
flood is a noun and verb meaning "the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land". It is pronounced /ˈflʌd/ — fluhd. It carries 10 recorded senses.
the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land
“plains fertilized by annual inundations”
an overwhelming number or amount
“a flood of requests”
“a torrent of abuse”
light that is a source of artificial illumination having a broad beam; used in photography
a large flow
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”
supply with an excess of
“flood the market with tennis shoes”
“Glut the country with cheap imports from the Orient”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for flood come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.