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flooded

/fluhd/US // flʌd //UK // (flʌd) //

被淹没的,被淹没,被水淹没的,被水淹没

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : 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.
    • : the rise or flowing in of the tide.
    • : a floodlight.
    • : Archaic. a large body of water.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : 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.
    • : Automotive. to supply too much fuel to, so that the engine fails to start.
    • : to floodlight.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : 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.

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Examples

  • 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.