Synonyms for flood

noun

  1. A great flow of water

    deluge, surge, tide, high tide, freshet, overflow, torrent, flash flood, inundation, alluvion, wave, bore, flood tide, eagre, tidal flood, tidal flow.

  2. An overwhelming quantity

    outpouring, spate, abundance, superabundance; see sense 1, plenty.

verb

See flood in Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus II


noun
  1. An abundant, usually overwhelming flow or fall, as of a river or rain:

    alluvion, cataclysm, cataract, deluge, downpour, freshet, inundation, Niagara, overflow, torrent. (Chiefly British) spate. See big
  2. Something suggestive of running water:

    current, drift, flow, flux, rush, spate, stream, surge, tide. See move
verb
  1. To flow over completely:

    deluge, drown, engulf, flush, inundate, overflow, overwhelm, submerge, whelm. See full
  2. To affect as if by an outpouring of water:

    deluge, inundate, overwhelm, swamp, whelm. See full
  3. To come or go in large numbers:

    pour, swarm, throng, troop. See big, move

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