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1. Covered with water
   "the main deck was flooded"; "a flooded bathroom"
   - afloat, awash, inundated, overflowing

1. Fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid
   "The images flooded his mind"
   - 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"
   - oversupply, glut
    
4. Become filled to overflowing
   "Our basement flooded during the heavy rains"

See also: flood in, flood out, flooding, full

Type of: cover, fill, fill up, furnish, make full, provide, render, spread over, supply

Encyclopedia: Flood