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noun
- A (usually disastrous) overflow of water from a lake or other body of water due to excessive rainfall or other input of water.
- (figuratively) A large number or quantity of anything appearing more rapidly than can easily be dealt with.
verb
- To overflow.
- To cover or partly fill as if by a flood.
- The floor was flooded with beer.
- They flooded the room with sewage.
- (figuratively) To provide (someone or something) with a larger number or quantity of something than can easily be dealt with.
- The station's switchboard was flooded with listeners making complaints.
- (context, internet, computing) To paste numerous lines of text in IRC, usually resulting in an automated kick or ban.
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noun
- the period between low tide and the next high tide in which the sea is rising
- (context, by extension) the highest point of something; a climax
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