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flood

verb

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flood verb (COVER WITH WATER)

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B1 [ I or T ]

to cause to fill or become covered with water, especially in a way that causes problems:

Our washing machine broke down yesterday and flooded the kitchen.

The whole town flooded when the river burst its banks.

be flooded out Several families living by the river were flooded out (= forced to leave their houses because they became covered with water).

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When the river flooded, the footbridge was swept away.
The river burst its banks and flooded the surrounding fields.
He left the bath running and flooded the bathroom.
The severe cold caused a water main to burst and flood the street.
This coastal area floods every year, so the local people build their houses on stilts.

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Floods, tides & currents

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Enclosing, surrounding and immersing

flood verb (ARRIVE)

B2 [ I usually + adv/prep, T ]

to fill or enter a place in large numbers or amounts:

flood into Donations are flooding into the homeless shelter.

flood in She drew back the curtains and the sunlight came flooding in.

be flooded with He was flooded with (= suddenly felt a lot of) joy when his first child was born.

flood back For Proust, the taste of a madeleine brought childhood memories flooding back (= made him suddenly remember a lot of things).

flood the market

to make goods available in such large numbers that the price falls, or other goods cannot compete:

Japanese cars have flooded the market (= a lot of them are on sale).

They have flooded the market with low-cost imports.

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The market is flooded with thousands of new titles each month.
Cheap food from neighbouring countries is flooding the market.
Central banks around the world flooded the markets with money.

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Wearing scarves and hats which proclaimed their allegiance, the football fans flooded into the bar.
There are few jobs for the peasants who have flooded into the cities from the poverty-stricken countryside in search of work.
Offers of help have been flooding in since news of the disaster first emerged.
Messages of support have been flooding in since she announced her decision to stand for president.
Memories of childhood flooded back as she looked through the photographs.

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Filling and completing

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Partikkelverb

flood something with something

flood

noun

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flood noun (WATER)

B1 [ C or U ]

a large amount of water covering an area that is usually dry:

After the flood it took weeks for the water level to go down.

in flood The river is in flood (= water has flowed over its banks) again.

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in floods of tears UK

crying a lot:

I found her in floods of tears in the toilets.

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the Flood

(in the Bible) a flood sent by God that covered the whole earth as a punishment

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The recent flood has swept away the footbridge.
You should check your policy to see if you're covered for flood damage.
After the flood, nothing remained of the village.
The floods left thousands of people destitute.
People living in low-lying areas were evacuated because of the floods.

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Floods, tides & currents

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The Bible - people, events & places

flood noun (LARGE AMOUNT)

C2 [ C ]

a large amount or number of something:

flood of A flood of cheap imports has come into the country.

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Masses and large amounts of things

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Idiom

before the Flood

(Definisjon av flood fra Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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flood

verb [ I/T ]

/flʌd/

flood verb [I/T] (COVER WITH WATER)

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to fill or become covered with water or to cause this to happen to something:

[ T ] A burst pipe flooded the bathroom.

[ I ] The basements of many downtown buildings would flood whenever it rained.

flood verb [I/T] (FILL)

to fill or be filled with a large amount or too much of something:

[ I always + adv/prep ] Sunlight floods in through a skylight in the ceiling.

[ I always + adv/prep ] In the 1960s, Cuban immigrants began to flood into Florida.

[ T ] We don’t want them to flood the market with cheap imports.

If you flood an engine, you fill it with so much fuel that it will not start.

flood

noun [ C ]

/flʌd/

flood noun [C] (LARGE AMOUNT OF WATER)

a large amount of water covering an area that is usually dry:

Kingston was heavily damaged by a flood.

flood noun [C] (LARGE AMOUNT OF SOMETHING)

a large amount or number of something:

Planners are hoping for a flood of visitors when the center opens.

He was filled with a flood of new emotions.

(Definisjon av flood fra Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

flood | Forretningsengelsk

flood

verb [ I or T ]

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to enter or leave a place in large numbers or amounts:

Record public spending, fueled by high oil prices, is flooding the country's flourishing economy with cash.

Electronic gadgets have flooded the market in recent years.

flood in from somewhere Turnover continues to increase as orders flood in from around the world.

flood into/out of sth Foreign money has been flooding into the London property market for several years now.

[ T, usually passive ]

to send something such as letters, emails, or requests in large numbers to a person or organization:

Unwanted email – or spam – is flooding inboxes at an unprecedented rate.

be flooded with orders/requests/calls The phone lines were flooded with calls from worried and angry consumers.

flood sth with sth Overseas students continue to flood colleges with applications for courses.

flood

noun [ C ]

/flʌd/ us

a large number or amount of people or things:

Fund managers are surprised how quickly the trickle of money leaving the country has become a flood.

a flood of sth A bumper harvest coupled with a flood of imports have pushed the price of sugar lower.

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Eksempler på flood

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A variety of ' loyal ' complaints and petitions flooded into government offices to complement this underhand resistance.

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In the rainy season in particular, potholes, floods, swamps and filth make it extremely difficult for cars and trucks to ply the roads.

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Thus, while music culture is flooded by the latest technology, the need for a defence against oversimplification has grown.

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The region is characterized by tropical seasonally flooded savannas.

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The precise sense of gelad may have been 'water-crossing liable to be rendered impassable by flooding'.

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Effects of flooding on memories of patients with posttraumatic stress disorder.

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During the 1931 survey it was noticed that these belts frequently formed the highwater-mark of the floods.

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Late water floods can be used to lower pesticide inputs but the success of this practice is dependent on many variables36,38.

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Nevertheless, some relatively small differences were detected in the degree of secondary dormancy induced in each population by flooding.

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Frequency of flooding which covered seedling census plots did not differ among the sites.

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Studies began 1 y before the onset of forest fragmentation and encompassed the first 3 y after flooding.

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More than 90% of the landscape is terra firme, although small periodically flooded areas also occur.

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The response of fishes to periodic spring floods in a southeastern stream.

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He also noted sudden thickening of coals along zones adjacent to belts of thin coal, which was ascribed to redeposition by flooding.

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Each island was classified according to the amount of water in the soil (flooded, wet or moist) and by the island form (elliptical or long).

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annual flood

In their natural state, floodplains support diverse wildlife habitats, fisheries, and forests, whose productivity depend critically on the annual flood cycle.

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catastrophic flood

We had our first catastrophic flood in 1953.

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devastating flood

The bridge stood until a devastating flood washed out the supports in 1998, carrying away the bridge.

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