FLOODED

awash, afloat(p), flooded, inundated, overflowing

(adjective) 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”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Adjective

flooded (comparative more flooded, superlative most flooded)

Filled with water from rain or rivers.

Filled with too much fluid.

(by extension) Overwhelmed with too much of something.

Synonyms

• inundated

Antonyms

• unflooded

• uninundated

Verb

flooded

simple past tense and past participle of flood

Source: Wiktionary

FLOOD

Flood, n. Etym: [OE. flod a flowing, stream, flood, AS. flod; akin to D. vloed, OS. flod, OHG. fluot, G. flut, Icel. floedh, Sw. & Dan. flod, Goth. flodus; from the root of E. flow. sq. root80. See Flow, v. i.]

1. A great flow of water; a body of moving water; the flowing stream, as of a river; especially, a body of water, rising, swelling, and overflowing land not usually thus covered; a deluge; a freshet; an inundation. A covenant never to destroy The earth again by flood. Milton.

2. The flowing in of the tide; the semidiurnal swell or rise of water in the ocean; -- opposed to ebb; as, young flood; high flood. There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Shak.

3. A great flow or stream of any fluid substance; as, a flood of light; a flood of lava; hence, a great quantity widely diffused; an overflowing; a superabundance; as, a flood of bank notes; a flood of paper currency.

4. Menstrual disharge; menses. Harvey. Flood anchor (Naut.) , the anchor by which a ship is held while the tide is rising.

– Flood fence, a fence so secured that it will not be swept away by a flood.

– Flood gate, a gate for shutting out, admitting, or releasing, a body of water; a tide gate.

– Flood mark, the mark or line to which the tide, or a flood, rises; high-water mark.

– Flood tide, the rising tide; -- opposed to ebb tide.

– The Flood, the deluge in the days of Noah.

Flood, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Flooded; p. pr. & vb. n. Flooding.]

1. To overflow; to inundate; to deluge; as, the swollen river flooded the valley.

2. To cause or permit to be inundated; to fill or cover with water or other fluid; as, to flood arable land for irrigation; to fill to excess or to its full capacity; as, to flood a country with a depreciated currency.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition