1. Fill or become beyond capacity with too large a volume of something
   "The images flooded his mind";
   - deluge, inundate, swamp
    
2. Cover with liquid, usually water
   "The swollen river flooded the village"; "The broken vein had flooded blood in her eyes"
    
3. Supply with an excess of
   "flood the market with tennis shoes";
   - oversupply, glut
    
4. Become filled to overflowing
   "Our basement flooded during the heavy rains"

1. The rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land
   "plains fertilized by annual floods";
   - inundation, deluge, alluvion
    
2. A sudden, large flow of emotion, words, or actions
   "The flood of information overwhelmed the system";
   - outpouring
    
3. The act of flooding; filling to overflowing
   "The flood of the river caused widespread damage";
   - flowage
    
4. An overwhelming number or amount
   "a flood of requests";
   - inundation, deluge, torrent
    
5. 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";
   - flood tide, rising tide
    
6. Light that is a source of artificial illumination having a broad beam; used in photography
   "The photographer set up several floods to evenly illuminate the large group portrait";
   - floodlight, flood lamp, photoflood

Derived forms: floods, flooding, flooded

See also: deluge, flood in

Type of: batch, bunch [informal], cover, deal, fill, fill up, filling, flock, flow, furnish, geological phenomenon, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, light, light source, lot, mass, mess, mickle [archaic], mountain, muckle, offer, passel [US], peck, pile [informal], plenty, pot, provide, quite a little, raft, render, scad [N. Amer, informal], sight, slew, spate, spread over, stack [informal], stream, supply, tide, tidy sum, wad

Antonym: ebbtide

Part of: photographic equipment

Encyclopedia: Flood, Patrick