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• flood */*/ — I UK [flʌd] / US verb Word forms flood : present tense I/you/we/they flood he/she/it floods present participle flooding past tense flooded past participle flooded 1) [transitive] if water floods a place, it covers it Water burst through the dam… …   English dictionary

• flood — flood1 [ flʌd ] verb ** ▸ 1 when water covers something ▸ 2 arrive in large numbers ▸ 3 when light fills place ▸ 4 about engine ▸ 5 suddenly start to cry ▸ 6 when face turns red ▸ 7 feel emotion strongly ▸ + PHRASES 1. ) transitive if water… …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• flood — [[t]flʌ̱d[/t]] ♦♦♦ floods, flooding, flooded 1) N VAR If there is a flood, a large amount of water covers an area which is usually dry, for example when a river flows over its banks or a pipe bursts. More than 70 people were killed in the floods …   English dictionary

• flood*/ — [flʌd] verb I 1) [I/T] to cover a place with water, or to become covered with water Water burst through the dam and flooded local villages.[/ex] The ground floor of the house was flooded.[/ex] 2) [I] if a river floods, water rises up over its… …   Dictionary for writing and speaking English

• flood — 1 verb 1 COVER WITH WATER (I, T) to make a place become covered, or to become covered with water: Three days of heavy rain flooded many Eastern cities. | The basement flooded and everything got soaked. 2 GO/ARRIVE IN LARGE AMOUNTS/NUMBERS (I) to… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• flood — ▪ I. flood flood 1 [flʌd] verb 1. [transitive] to send a large number of things such as letters or requests to an organization: flood something with • Dealers flooded Congress with angry letters. • Swiss banks have been flooded with deposits and… …   Financial and business terms

• Flood basalt — A flood basalt or trap basalt is the result of a giant volcanic eruption or series of eruptions that coats large stretches of land or the ocean floor with basalt lava. Flood basalts have occurred on continental scales (large igneous provinces) in …   Wikipedia

• flood — flood1 S3 [flʌd] v ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(cover with water)¦ 2¦(river)¦ 3¦(go/arrive in large numbers)¦ 4 flood something with something 5 be flooded with something 6 flood the market 7¦(light)¦ 8¦(feeling)¦ 9¦(engine)¦ Phrasal …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• Henry Flood — (1732 ndash; 2 December 1791), Irish statesman, son of Warden Flood, chief justice of the kings bench in Ireland, was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and afterwards at Christ Church, Oxford, where he became proficient in the classics. He was …   Wikipedia

• 2007 Tabasco flood — The 2007 Tabasco flood occurred in late October and early November 2007 in the Mexican states of Tabasco and Chiapas, in which as much as 80% of the former was left under water. At least 20,000 people were forced to seek emergency shelter. Over 1 …   Wikipedia

• Arts & Letters Daily — ( [http://www.aldaily.com/ www.aldaily.com] ) is a web portal owned by The Chronicle of Higher Education. It features links to a diverse array of high quality news stories, features and reviews from throughout the online Anglosphere. In this, it… …   Wikipedia