Coffee has initially been a food – chewed, not sipped. Early African tribes consume coffee by grinding the berries together, adding some animal fat, and rolling the treats into tiny edible energy balls.
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
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