1. A technique used in behaviour therapy; client is flooded with experiences of a particular kind until becoming either averse to them or numbed to them
   "The psychologist recommended flooding to quickly address the patient's severe anxiety";
   - implosion therapy

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"

Derived forms: floodings

See also: deluge, flood in

Type of: behavior modification [US], behavior therapy [US], behaviour therapy [Brit, Cdn], cover, fill, fill up, furnish, offer, provide, render, spread over, supply

Encyclopedia: Flooding