flood

IPA: fɫˈʌd

An overflow (usually disastrous) of water from a lake or other body of water due to excessive rainfall or other input of water.
(figuratively) A large number or quantity of anything appearing more rapidly than can easily be dealt with.
The flowing in of the tide, opposed to the ebb.
A floodlight.
Menstrual discharge; menses.
(obsolete) Water as opposed to land.
(biblical) The flood referred to in the Book of Genesis in the Hebrew Bible.
A surname.

To overflow, as by water from excessive rainfall.
To cover or partly fill as if by a flood.
(figuratively) To provide (someone or something) with a larger number or quantity of something than can easily be dealt with.
(Internet, transitive, intransitive) To paste numerous lines of text to (a chat system) in order to disrupt the conversation.
To bleed profusely, as after childbirth.

Examples of "flood" in Sentences

The latin flood is going to increase in the long run not controlled or reduced.
Ah, but Rathin Mullick, stop, you must not use the word flood in this house, a bad word, a disastrous word!
When you begin taking the term flood, if you try to (unintelligible) it so many ways as the insurance companies have, it's going to be ambiguous.
Sher argued that the term flood was ambiguous, insofar as it might be limited to strictly "natural" events, as opposed to all instances of damage by water.
This demonstration was partly about non-payment of their EU subsidies but the farmers were also demanding the government protect them from what they call a flood of cheap imports.
Reversing a lower court decision, the Supreme Court upheld the policy exception according to the ordinary usage of the term flood and accordingly reduced Sher's award to recovery for damage from wind, lost rent, and other losses sustained during Katrina.