flood
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～ cover with liquid, usually water; "The swollen river flooded the village"; "The broken vein had flooded blood in her eyes"
flood
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～ become filled to overflowing; "Our basement flooded during the heavy rains"
flood
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～ supply with an excess of; "flood the market with tennis shoes"; "Glut the country with cheap imports from the Orient"
flood
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～ fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid; "the basement was inundated after the storm"; "The images flooded his mind"
flood
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～ the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land; "plains fertilized by annual inundations"
flood
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～ an overwhelming number or amount; "a flood of requests"; "a torrent of abuse"
flood control
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～ (engineering) the art or technique of trying to control rivers with dams etc in order to minimize the occurrence of floods
flood
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～ 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
flood
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～ the act of flooding; filling to overflowing
flood
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～ light that is a source of artificial illumination having a broad beam; used in photography