flood 的 3 个定义
- a great flowing or overflowing of water, especially over land not usually submerged.
- any great outpouring or stream: a flood of tears.
- the Flood, the universal deluge recorded as having occurred in the days of Noah. Genesis 7.
- (6)
- to overflow in or cover with a flood; fill to overflowing: Don't flood the bathtub.
- to cover or fill, as if with a flood: The road was flooded with cars.
- to overwhelm with an abundance of something: to be flooded with mail.
- (5)
- to flow or pour in or as if in a flood.
- to rise in a flood; overflow.
- Pathology. to suffer uterine hemorrhage, especially in connection with childbirth.to have an excessive menstrual flow.
flood 近义词
overwhelming flow, quantity
inundate or submerge
更多flood例句
- As a result, poorer municipalities have less access to preparedness money for storms and floods.
- When you’ve got a few billion years to work with, it’s very possible that each valley experienced everything from glacial erosion to lava flows to surging floods under silver skies.
- The mayor of Imperial Beach, a border city blighted by frequent beach closures due to Tijuana River sewage runoff, says he needs short-term solutions for the floods his residents face while the federal government makes its decision.
- With rains and storms, a river flood might have swept the dino’s body out to sea.
- Too much rain can result in floods that destroy homes and lives.
- Brazen cherry-picking of the information in this story inspired a flood of “Bush Was Right All Along!”
- Cubans would flood the streets once again ousting the Castro brothers who have now been in power for 55 years.
- God kills every living thing (non-fish, non-Noah category) in a global flood.
- In our Capitol, Albany lawmakers enjoy a flood of money, personal accounts, and protection for incumbents against attacks.
- When the family was fine, or when a cruel employee at the dam was behind the flood, God was left out of the explanation.
- Various impulses urged him into a pouring flood of words; yet he gave expression to none of them.
- And as a flood hath watered the earth; so shall his wrath inherit the nations, that have not sought after him.
- “Flood”—Cleveland vetoed an unprecedented number of bills during his term.
- It was a rather depressed stock-hand, name of Flood, who blew cigarette smoke out over the brow of Writing-Stone that evening.
- Only in the sensational moments of famine, flood or pestilence was a general social effort called forth.