FLOOD
ADJECTIVES
► BIG of a river or water: swollen, in flood → 1890 Eng. dial.
► HASHING wasteful, destructive; overflowing, as of a flood → 1812 Sc.
NOUNS
► ANTLOPHOBIA an abnormal fear of floods → 1991 (Bk.)
► BIG TIDE a flood → 1969 Amer. dial.
► BIG WATER a flood → 1970 Amer. dial.
► BRACK a sudden fall of earth or snow on a slope; a flood from a thaw; a sudden and heavy fall of rain → 1911 Sc. (Bk.)
► BRASH a great or unusual number coming in rapid succession; a rush, a flood → 1921 Amer. dial.
► CATACLYSM a great and general flood of water; a deluge → 1637
► FLOWAGE water which has overflowed from a river or stream; floodwater → 1950 Amer. dial.
► HEAD RISE a flash flood → 1944 Amer. dial.
► HEADWATER flood-water → 1968 Amer. dial.
► LAND-SHUT a flood → 1902 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► LAND-WATERS rivers overflowing and flooding the land → 1902 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► RAISE a rise in the level of a stream; a flood → 1927 Amer. dial.
► REE a river; a flood → 1721 Eng. dial. obs.
► REG a land-flood → 1888 Eng. dial.
► RUNOUT a flash flood → 1953 Amer. dial.
► SUDS flood-water; the water of the fens; water mixed with drift-sand and mud; drift-sand left by a flood → 1599 obs.
► SUPERUNDATION a flood caused by the rising of the tide → 1769 obs.
VERBS
► DILUVIATE to run as a flood; to cause an inundation → 1599 obs.
► DOUCHE OUT as a prank, to flood the floor of a room by pouring buckets of water under the crack of the door → 1967 US sl.
► SAIL to be covered over with liquid, to be swimming or awash; to be in flood → 1718 Sc.
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