All flood synonyms
flood
F f verb flood
- rush β to move, act, or progress with speed, impetuosity, or violence.
- deluge β A deluge of things is a large number of them which arrive or happen at the same time.
- overwhelm β to overcome completely in mind or feeling: overwhelmed by remorse.
- saturate β to cause (a substance) to unite with the greatest possible amount of another substance, through solution, chemical combination, or the like.
- flow β to move along in a stream: The river flowed slowly to the sea.
- sweep β to move or remove (dust, dirt, etc.) with or as if with a broom, brush, or the like.
- choke β When you choke or when something chokes you, you cannot breathe properly or get enough air into your lungs.
- swamp β a tract of wet, spongy land, often having a growth of certain types of trees and other vegetation, but unfit for cultivation.
- drown β to die under water or other liquid of suffocation.
- overflow β to flow or run over, as rivers or water: After the thaw, the river overflows and causes great damage.
- fill β to make full; put as much as can be held into: to fill a jar with water.
- oversupply β an excessive supply.
- immerse β to plunge into or place under a liquid; dip; sink.
- glut β to feed or fill to satiety; sate: to glut the appetite.
- surge β a strong, wavelike, forward movement, rush, or sweep: the onward surge of an angry mob.
- swarm β a body of honeybees that emigrate from a hive and fly off together, accompanied by a queen, to start a new colony.
- gush β to flow out or issue suddenly, copiously, or forcibly, as a fluid from confinement: Water gushed from the broken pipe.
- whelm β to submerge; engulf.
noun flood
- inundation β to flood; cover or overspread with water; deluge.
- downpour β a heavy, drenching rain.
- torrent β a stream of water flowing with great rapidity and violence.
- tidal wave β (not in technical use) a large, destructive ocean wave, produced by a seaquake, hurricane, or strong wind. Compare tsunami.
- quantity β a particular or indefinite amount of anything: a small quantity of milk; the ocean's vast quantity of fish.
- spate β a sudden, almost overwhelming, outpouring: a spate of angry words.
- stream β a body of water flowing in a channel or watercourse, as a river, rivulet, or brook. Synonyms: rill, run, streamlet, runnel.
- tide β the periodic rise and fall of the waters of the ocean and its inlets, produced by the attraction of the moon and sun, and occurring about every 12 hours.
- tsunami β an unusually large sea wave produced by a seaquake or undersea volcanic eruption.
- wave β a member of the Waves.
- niagara β a river on the boundary between W New York and Ontario, Canada, flowing from Lake Erie into Lake Ontario. 34 miles (55 km) long.
- abundance β An abundance of something is a large quantity of it.
- alluvion β the wash of the sea or of a river
- bore β If someone or something bores you, you find them dull and uninteresting.
- bounty β You can refer to something that is provided in large amounts as bounty.
- cataclysm β A cataclysm is an event that causes great change or harm.
- cataract β Cataracts are layers over a person's eyes that prevent them from seeing properly. Cataracts usually develop because of old age or illness.
- current β A current is a steady and continuous flowing movement of some of the water in a river, lake, or sea.
- drift β a driving movement or force; impulse; impetus; pressure.
- eager β keen or ardent in desire or feeling; impatiently longing: I am eager for news about them. He is eager to sing.
- excess β An amount of something that is more than necessary, permitted, or desirable.
- flux β a flowing or flow.
- freshet β a freshwater stream flowing into the sea.
- multitude β a great number; host: a multitude of friends.
- outpouring β outpouring.
- plenty β a full or abundant supply or amount: There is plenty of time.
- pour β to send (a liquid, fluid, or anything in loose particles) flowing or falling, as from one container to another, or into, over, or on something: to pour a glass of milk; to pour water on a plant.
- profusion β abundance; abundant quantity.
- superabundance β exceedingly or excessively abundant; more than sufficient; excessive.
- superfluity β the state of being superfluous.
- surplus β something that remains above what is used or needed.
- drencher β One who, or that which, drenches.