flood out

1. 1.

   charge someone with too many tasks

   Synonymsoverwhelmdeluge

   Broadercharge

Questions about flood out

What does flood out mean?

flood out means "charge someone with too many tasks".

What is another word for flood out?

Close synonyms include overwhelm, deluge. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is flood out a common word?

flood out is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.