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Great outpouring
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flood
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Flood is the third album by Japanese band Boris . Like the previous albums, it stays lengthy and massively slow, but in addition to sludge influences such as the Melvins and Sleep , there are undertones of psychedelic rock. Upon its initial release the ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. verb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a devastating flood/fire/earthquake etc ▪ The country is still recovering from last year's devastating floods. a flood of immigrants (= a very large number of immigrants that arrive at the same time ) ▪ He suggested ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1660s, "to overflow" (transitive), from flood (n.). Intransitive sense "to rise in a flood" is from 1755. Related: Flooded ; flooding .
Usage examples of flood.
A great flood of pamphlets and broadsides represented him as the pathetic victim of absolutist oppression.
Lark was flooded with relief when she rounded a bend in the trail and saw Ace Brandon climbing toward her.
A raw and overwhelming grief flooded her, and her throat ached with defeat.
The Brattles, Hannah Flood and her children, and five other families--forty souls in all--had made it to some caves on the south end of the Achor Marshes and had remained hidden there for a week now.
The gathering clouds parted briefly and a crescent moon flooded the bay with a brilliant, achromatic light.
Her metabolic enhancer kicked in, flooding her body with extra adrenaline and inducing extra adenosine triphosphate.
Relief flooded through him when he saw the second assailant on the ground, Ager on top of him, blade sunk deep into his heart and lungs.
I knew that with the tide the big evil-looking albacore sharks hunted inshore upon the flood.
Roha moved slowly as if against a current in a flooding river, moved slowly through the Amar toward the fire.
Other authorities have suggested that the angiosperms originated along estuaries and bays as the ocean waters flooded the continents.
The waves rebounded in dazzling foam, the beach entirely disapppearing under the raging flood, and the cliff appearing to emerge from the sea itself, the spray rising to a height of more than a hundred feet.
The River Arend was in flood stage because of all the rain, however, and the current was definitely slowing him down.
Guests flooded in from the verandas and grouped themselves in doorways, watching Darden, who was flanked by the directors of the Argyle Museum.
As soon as the moon rose, full, flooding the desert with silver light, they were astir and preparing to move out.
An unmistakeable yearning flooded Aurora, along with an unfamiliar hunger she could only call desire.