flood
verb/flʌd/
/flʌd/
Verb Forms
Phrasal Verbs| present simple I / you / we / they flood | /flʌd/ /flʌd/ |
| he / she / it floods | /flʌdz/ /flʌdz/ |
| past simple flooded | /ˈflʌdɪd/ /ˈflʌdɪd/ |
| past participle flooded | /ˈflʌdɪd/ /ˈflʌdɪd/ |
| -ing form flooding | /ˈflʌdɪŋ/ /ˈflʌdɪŋ/ |
- [intransitive, transitive] if a place floods or something floods it, it becomes filled or covered with water
- The cellar floods whenever it rains heavily.
- flood something If the pipe bursts it could flood the whole house.
- be flooded with something The station was flooded with water and mud following heavy rain.
Extra ExamplesTopics Weatherb1- The area near the river is liable to flood.
- The village had been badly flooded.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverb + flood- be liable to
- be badly flooded
- flood its banks
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- [intransitive, transitive] to become so full that it spreads out onto the land around it
- When the Ganges floods, it causes considerable damage.
- flood something The river flooded the valley.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverb + flood- be liable to
- be badly flooded
- flood its banks
- [intransitive] flood + adv./prep. to arrive or go somewhere in large numbers synonym pour
- The home fans flooded onto the pitch at the finish.
- Texts and tweets came flooding in from all over the country.
Extra Examples- The crowd was flooding out onto the track.
- Scores of police officers in full riot gear flooded into the streets.
- Millions of poverty-stricken people will flood south in search of jobs.
- [transitive, usually passive] to send something somewhere in large numbers
- be flooded with something The office was flooded with applications for the job.
- We’ve been flooded with complaints.
- [transitive] to become or make something become available in a place in large numbers
- flood something Cheap imported goods are flooding the market.
- flood something with something A man who planned to flood Britain with cocaine was jailed for 15 years.
- [intransitive, transitive] to affect somebody suddenly and strongly
- + adv./prep. A great sense of relief flooded over him.
- Memories of her childhood came flooding back.
- flood somebody with something The words flooded him with self-pity.
- [intransitive, transitive] to spread suddenly into something; to cover something
- + adv./prep. She drew the curtains and the sunlight flooded in.
- flood something She looked away as the colour flooded her cheeks.
- be flooded with something The room was flooded with evening light.
- [intransitive, transitive] flood (something) if an engine floods or if you flood it, it becomes so full of petrol that it will not start
fill with water
of river
large numbers
of feeling/thought
of light/colour
engine
Word OriginOld English flōd, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch vloed and German Flut, also to flow.
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