Floods Synonyms and Antonyms

An overwhelming number or amount
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. spates
  2. deluges
  3. tides
  4. abundances
  5. surges
  6. streams
  7. rushes
  8. fluxes
  9. torrents
  10. flows
  11. drifts
  12. currents
  13. outpourings
  14. inundations
To come or go in large numbers
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. pours
  2. swarms
  3. throngs
  4. troops
Fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. swamps
  2. whelms
  3. inundates
  4. overwhelms
  5. deluges
A large amount or number, especially when moving from one place to another:
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. flows

Floods Sentence Examples

  • The purpose was to decrease the floods which sometimes threaten to entirely submerge the city.

  • It was close to water but high enough to escape floods.

  • During floods they pour over their banks upon the surrounding valleys, by a thousand channels which interlace and establish communication between the main streams. After numerous bifurcations they find their way into the sea by three principal mouths.

  • For the next sixty years an urgent question was the prevention of floods in the capital.

  • The country was also visited by a succession of famines and floods, and in 1348 the Black Death swept over Europe like a terrible scourge.

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