flood

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
发音 flŭd

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An overflow of a large amount of water (usually disastrous) from a lake or other body of water due to excessive rainfall or other input of water.
    — a covenant never to destroy the earth again by flood
  2. A large number or quantity of anything appearing more rapidly than can easily be dealt with. figuratively
    — a flood of complaints
  3. The flowing in of the tide, opposed to the ebb.
    — There is a tide in the affairs of men, / Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.
  4. A floodlight.
  5. Menstrual discharge; menses.
  6. Water as opposed to land. obsolete
    — Who beheld from the safe shore their floating carcasses and broken chariot-wheels. So thick bestrown, abject and lost, lay these, covering the flood, under amazement of their hideous change.
动词 v.
  1. To overflow, as by water from excessive rainfall.
    — People flooded into the streets in protest.
  2. To cover or partly fill as if by a flood.
    — The floor was flooded with beer.
  3. To provide (someone or something) with a larger number or quantity of something than can easily be dealt with. figuratively
    — The station's switchboard was flooded with listeners making complaints.
  4. To paste numerous lines of text to (a chat system) in order to disrupt the conversation. Internet,ambitransitive
    — There's also a spam filter in the code now, so if someone attempts to flood people's screens with macros or a bot, everything after the first few lines is thrown away.
  5. To bleed profusely, as after childbirth.

词形变化

floods plural floud alternative,obsolete floods present,singular,third-person flooding participle,present flooded participle,past flooded past floud alternative,obsolete

词汇关系

反义词
drain
衍生词
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词源

词源 1
From Middle English flod, from Old English flōd, from Proto-West Germanic *flōdu, from Proto-Germanic *flōduz, from *plew- (“to flow”). Cognate with Scots flude, fluid, Saterland Frisian Floud, Dutch vloed, German Flut, Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish flod, Icelandic flóð, and Gothic 𐍆𐌻𐍉𐌳𐌿𐍃 (flōdus).
词源 2
From Middle English flod, from Old English flōd, from Proto-West Germanic *flōdu, from Proto-Germanic *flōduz, from *plew- (“to flow”). Cognate with Scots flude, fluid, Saterland Frisian Floud, Dutch vloed, German Flut, Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish flod, Icelandic flóð, and Gothic 𐍆𐌻𐍉𐌳𐌿𐍃 (flōdus).
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