Found 4 items, similar to flood.
English → Indonesian (Kamus Landak) Definition: flood banjir
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: flood banjir, cacap, melimpahi, membahkan, membanjiri, mengacapi, mengampuhkan
English → English (WordNet) Definition: flood flood n 1: the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land; “plains fertilized by annual inundations” [syn: inundation, deluge, alluvion] 2: an overwhelming number or amount; “a flood of requests”; “a torrent of abuse” [syn: inundation, deluge, torrent] 3: light that is a source of artificial illumination having a broad beam; used in photography [syn: floodlight, flood lamp , photoflood] 4: a large flow [syn: overflow, outpouring] 5: the act of flooding; filling to overflowing [syn: flowage] 6: the inward flow of the tide; “a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune” -Shakespeare flood v 1: fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid; “the basement was inundated after the storm”; “The images flooded his mind” [syn: 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”; “Glut the country with cheap imports from the Orient” [syn: oversupply, glut] 4: become filled to overflowing; “Our basement flooded during the heavy rains”
English → English (gcide) Definition: Flood Flood \Flood\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Flooded; p. pr. & vb. n. Flooding.] 1. To overflow; to inundate; to deluge; as, the swollen river flooded the valley. [1913 Webster] 2. To cause or permit to be inundated; to fill or cover with water or other fluid; as, to flood arable land for irrigation; to fill to excess or to its full capacity; as, to flood a country with a depreciated currency. [1913 Webster] Flood \Flood\ (fl[u^]d), n. [OE. flod a flowing, stream, flood, AS. fl[=o]d; akin to D. vloed, OS. fl[=o]d, OHG. fluot, G. flut, Icel. fl[=o][eth], Sw. & Dan. flod, Goth. fl[=o]dus; from the root of E. flow. [root]80. See Flow, v. i.] 1. A great flow of water; a body of moving water; the flowing stream, as of a river; especially, a body of water, rising, swelling, and overflowing land not usually thus covered; a deluge; a freshet; an inundation. [1913 Webster] A covenant never to destroy The earth again by flood. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 2. The flowing in of the tide; the semidiurnal swell or rise of water in the ocean; -- opposed to ebb; as, young flood; high flood. [1913 Webster] There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 3. A great flow or stream of any fluid substance; as, a flood of light; a flood of lava; hence, a great quantity widely diffused; an overflowing; a superabundance; as, a flood of bank notes; a flood of paper currency. [1913 Webster] 4. Menstrual disharge; menses. --Harvey. [1913 Webster] Flood anchor (Naut.), the anchor by which a ship is held while the tide is rising. Flood fence, a fence so secured that it will not be swept away by a flood. Flood gate, a gate for shutting out, admitting, or releasing, a body of water; a tide gate. Flood mark, the mark or line to which the tide, or a flood, rises; high-water mark. Flood tide, the rising tide; -- opposed to ebb tide. The Flood, the deluge in the days of Noah. [1913 Webster]