flood
pronunciation
How to pronounce flood in British English:
UK [flʌd]
How to pronounce flood in American English:
US [flʌd]
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- Noun:
- the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land
- an overwhelming number or amount
- light that is a source of artificial illumination having a broad beam; used in photography
- a large flow
- the act of flooding; filling to overflowing
- the inward flow of the tide
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- Verb:
- fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid
- cover with liquid, usually water
- supply with an excess of
- become filled to overflowing
Word Origin
- flood
- flood: [OE] Flood goes back to a prehistoric Germanic *flōthuz, which also produced German flut, Dutch vloed, and Swedish flod ‘flood’. It was derived ultimately from Indo- European *plō-, a variant of *pleu- ‘flow, float’ which also produced English fleet, float, fly, fledge, and fowl.=> fleet, float, fly, fowl
- flood (n.)
- Old English flōd "a flowing of water, tide, an overflowing of land by water, a deluge, Noah's Flood; mass of water, river, sea, wave," from Proto-Germanic *floduz "flowing water, deluge" (cognates: Old Frisian flod, Old Norse floð, Middle Dutch vloet, Dutch vloed, German Flut, Gothic flodus), from the source of Old English flowan, from PIE verbal root *pleu- "to flow, float, swim" (see pluvial). In early modern English often floud. Figurative use, "a great quantity, a sudden abundance," by mid-14c.
- flood (v.)
- 1660s, "to overflow" (transitive), from flood (n.). Intransitive sense "to rise in a flood" is from 1755. Related: Flooded; flooding.
Example
- 1. Otherwise the stream of yuan inflows could become a flood .
- 2. Pessimists fretted that a flood of imports would destroy indian industry .
- 3. This has caused me a lot of trouble and a flood of insults .
- 4. At home , however , rage has been building among flood victims .
- 5. That has reduced the industry 's capacity to flood the world with its products .