as in torrent
a great flow of water or of something that overwhelms
a flood nearly wiped out the town a flood of messages on my computer
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as in to engulf
to cover with a flood
the lowlands were completely flooded angry calls flooded the radio station
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Recent Examples of flood
Kimberlee Speakman, People.com, 27 Dec. 2024
Now, locations that received heavy rain earlier in the week will be susceptible to floods as more storms move through the region on Thursday.
—Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 26 Dec. 2024
Ben Standig, The Athletic, 30 Dec. 2024
As an independent career and executive coach and job market observer, I am often flooded – especially at this time of year – by requests for predictions and projections for next year.
—Eli Amdur, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
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Noun
Police in Texas are searching for an 8-year-old girl from Oklahoma who went missing on Christmas Eve after her family’s car was swept away by floods — and her father died.
—Kimberlee Speakman, People.com, 27 Dec. 2024
Now, locations that received heavy rain earlier in the week will be susceptible to floods as more storms move through the region on Thursday.
—Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 26 Dec. 2024
Verb
They are flooded with down lineman, but could catch a real edge rusher for Jon Allen.
—Ben Standig, The Athletic, 30 Dec. 2024
As an independent career and executive coach and job market observer, I am often flooded – especially at this time of year – by requests for predictions and projections for next year.
—Eli Amdur, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for flood
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Technology mogul Elon Musk has been using his X social media platform in recent weeks to unleash a torrent of criticisms and accusations aimed at political figures in Britain, Germany and Canada.Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 7 Jan. 2025
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Mandatory overtime to send surges of unhappy and ill-prepared cops underground hasn’t restored confidence in public safety, even as investigators are now probing how Friends of Eric benefitted from the OT torrent.Harry Siegel, New York Daily News, 4 Jan. 2025
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Now that social media has engulfed culture, pop songs are teased as snippets, mined for the briefest hooks and effects, choreographed for vertical screens and pitched as the latest plot twist in a performer’s continuing, open-ended reality series, otherwise known as a career.Jon Pareles, New York Times, 28 Dec. 2024
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With the star ready to explode into life — and threatening to engulf the Earth in the process — Joy grabs the briefcase and absorbs the seed into herself.Richard Edwards, Space.com, 25 Dec. 2024
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This lack of collaboration is untenable in the current reality where the sea of fast-moving, stealth attackers threatens to overwhelm the dike entirely.Jonathan Fischbein, Forbes, 14 Jan. 2025
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While liberals run the country from the Washington bureaucracy out to the grassroots, conservatives run the country by arousing the grassroots to overwhelm the resistance of Washington.Newt Gingrich, Orlando Sentinel, 11 Jan. 2025
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The proliferation of point solutions—tools that solve only one or two specific pain points—has left organizations drowning in software.Joshua Siler, Forbes, 8 Jan. 2025
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While getting these hands-on pics, the bustle of the Vegas Strip didn’t drown out my music or prevent me from hearing my colleague Antonio G. Di Benedetto’s photo cues.Victoria Song, The Verge, 7 Jan. 2025
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What to Know Photos and videos shared on social media show cars and roads being submerged in water.Kevin Lynn, Newsweek, 8 Jan. 2025
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In the film, a catastrophic flood submerges everything in its path, including Cat’s home.Jamie Lang, Variety, 8 Jan. 2025
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Reising warned that despite the big storms that have deluged the region in the past couple of months, a La Niña weather system has the potential to bring drier conditions, particularly in the southern portion of the state.Sharon Udasin, The Hill, 2 Jan. 2025
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Between 6 and 8 inches of rain deluged the area and triggered a rare flash flood emergency — the most severe flood alert — Wednesday night, according to the National Weather Service.Dalia Faheid, CNN, 12 Sep. 2024
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“Flood.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flood. Accessed 17 Jan. 2025.
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