flood : Idioms & Phrases

• noun a sudden local flood of great volume and short duration
  flashflood.
  

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• (Naut.) , the anchor by which a ship is held while the tide is rising.

Webster 1913

• noun (engineering) the art or technique of trying to control rivers with dams etc in order to minimize the occurrence of floods
  

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• a fence so secured that it will not be swept away by a flood.

Webster 1913

• a gate for shutting out, admitting, or releasing, a body of water; a tide gate.

Webster 1913

• verb arrive in great numbers
  

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• noun light that is a source of artificial illumination having a broad beam; used in photography
  flood; floodlight; photoflood.
  

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• the mark or line to which the tide, or a flood, rises; high-water mark.

Webster 1913

• verb charge someone with too many tasks
  overwhelm; deluge.
  

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• noun a low plain adjacent to a river that is formed chiefly of river sediment and is subject to flooding
  floodplain.
  

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• noun the highest point of anything conceived of as growing or developing or unfolding
  climax.
  
  • the climax of the artist's career
  • in the flood tide of his success
• noun the occurrence of incoming water (between a low tide and the following high tide)
  flood; rising tide.
  
  • a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune" -Shakespeare

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• the rising tide; opposed to ebb tide.

Webster 1913

• noun any of several Australian gum trees growing on moist or alluvial soil
  

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• noun (Biblical) the great deluge that is said in the Book of Genesis to have occurred in the time of Noah; it was brought by God upon the earth because of the wickedness of human beings
  Noah and the Flood; Noah's flood; Noachian deluge.
  

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• noun (Biblical) the great deluge that is said in the Book of Genesis to have occurred in the time of Noah; it was brought by God upon the earth because of the wickedness of human beings
  Noah and the Flood; Noah's flood; Noachian deluge.
  

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• a vast body of sand borne along by the wind. James Bruce.

Webster 1913

• a flood from melted snow.

Webster 1913

• noun (Biblical) the great deluge that is said in the Book of Genesis to have occurred in the time of Noah; it was brought by God upon the earth because of the wickedness of human beings
  Noah and the Flood; Noah's flood; Noachian deluge.
  

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• the deluge in the days of Noah.

Webster 1913