Crossword clues for flooded
The Collaborative International Dictionary
flooded \flooded\ adj.
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covered or overflowing with water.
Syn: afloat(predicate), awash(predicate).
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filled to overflowing as if with water; as, a desk flooded with applications.
Syn: inundated, swamped.
Wiktionary
1 fill with water from rain or rivers. 2 Filled with too much fluid. 3 (qualifier: Hence): overwhelmed with too much of something. v
(en-past of: flood)
WordNet
adj. covered with water; "the main deck was afloat (or awash)"; "the monsoon left the whole place awash"; "a flooded bathroom"; "inundated farmlands"; "an overflowing tub" [syn: afloat(p), awash(p), inundated, overflowing]
rendered powerless especially by an excessive amount or profusion of something; "a desk flooded with applications"; "felt inundated with work"; "too much overcome to notice"; "a man engulfed by fear"; "swamped by work" [syn: inundated, overcome, overpowered, overwhelmed, swamped, engulfed]
Wikipedia
"Flooded" is the fourth episode of season 6 of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Usage examples of "flooded".
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 gathering clouds parted briefly and a crescent moon flooded the bay with a brilliant, achromatic light.
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.
Other authorities have suggested that the angiosperms originated along estuaries and bays as the ocean waters flooded the continents.
Guests flooded in from the verandas and grouped themselves in doorways, watching Darden, who was flanked by the directors of the Argyle Museum.
An unmistakeable yearning flooded Aurora, along with an unfamiliar hunger she could only call desire.
This country is flooded with cheap circulars and pamphlets, circulated openly and broadcast, wherein ignorant, pretentious, blatant quacks endeavor to frighten young men who may never have practiced self-abuse, or been guilty of excesses in any way, and yet who experience, now and then at long intervals, nocturnal seminal emissions.
Then the liquid reactor coolant sprayed and flooded the compartment as the number-two reactor vessel flew off its foundation and careened to the aft bulkhead, where it punctured the titanium wall.
The cougar growled, and the sound amplified the memories until it seemed as if a thousand voices flooded into her mind and deafened her.
Black fluid flooded out from the sidewalls, falling a clear 200 feet down them into the croc lake.
Through the white fire that flooded the crystal, the black Cygnet flew, imprinting itself in her eye, in her mind.
The shelve of the beach saved the cave from being flooded and the beetling of the cliff kept it dry and within a couple of feet of the entrance but it could not keep out the rain smell, the raw smell of Kerguelen carried from inland, the smell of bog patches and new washed dolerite and bitter vegetation, keen, like the smell of the Stone Age.
I have flooded its days and nights with thoughts till the world and my life have grown one,--and I love my life because I love the light of the sky so enwoven with me.
Ordinarily, he should have arrived before Fant, but flooded roads had forced a roundabout route.