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A violent upheaval that causes great destruction or brings about a fundamental change.
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- A violent upheaval that causes great destruction or brings about a fundamental change.
- A violent and sudden change in the earth's crust.
- A devastating flood.
An eye disease in which the crystalline lens or its capsule becomes opaque, causing partial or total blindness
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- An eye disease in which the crystalline lens or its capsule becomes opaque, causing partial or total blindness
- A waterfall in which a large volume of water flows over a steep precipice.
- Any strong flood or rush of water; deluge
A heavy rainfall
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- A heavy rainfall
- Something that overwhelms as if by a great flood:
- In the Bible, the great flood that occurred in the time of Noah.
- A heavy rain
- A heavy rain
- A heavy fall of rain.
A large body of water, as a sea or broad river
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- A large body of water, as a sea or broad river
- A temporary rise of the water level, as in a river or lake or along a seacoast, resulting in its spilling over and out of its natural or artificial confines onto land that is normally dry. Floods are usually caused by excessive runoff from precipitation or snowmelt, or by coastal storm surges or other tidal phenomena. &diamf3; Floods are sometimes described according to their statistical occurrence. A fifty-year flood is a flood having a magnitude that is reached in a particular location on average once every fifty years. In any given year there is a two percent statistical chance of the occurrence of a fifty-year flood and a one percent chance of a hundred-year flood .
- A flood tide.
A stream or rush of fresh water flowing into the sea
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- A stream or rush of fresh water flowing into the sea
- A flood resulting from heavy rain or a spring thaw.
- A sudden overflowing of a stream because of melting snow or heavy rain
A torrent or flood:
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- A torrent or flood:
An outlet for overflowing liquids
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- An outlet for overflowing liquids
- (Computers) A condition in which a calculation produces a unit of data too large to be stored in the location allotted to it.
- An overflowing or being overflowed
A swift, violent stream, esp. of water
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- A swift, violent stream, esp. of water
- A turbulent, swift-flowing stream.
- A very heavy fall of rain
A sudden heavy fall of rain.
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- A sudden heavy fall of rain.
- A freshet resulting from a downpour of rain or melting of snow.
- (Chiefly Brit.) A flash flood
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