Definitions for flooding

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flooding flood·ing

Spelling: [fluhd-ing]

IPA: /ˈflʌd ɪŋ/

Flooding is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 191 anagrams from letters in flooding (dfgilnoo).

Definitions for flooding

noun

1. a form of psychotherapy in which the patient receives abrupt and intense, rather than gradual, exposure to a fear-producing situation.
2. a great flowing or overflowing of water, especially over land not usually submerged.
3. any great outpouring or stream:
4. the Flood, the universal deluge recorded as having occurred in the days of Noah. Gen. 7.
5. the rise or flowing in of the tide (opposed to ebb).
6. a floodlight.
7. Archaic. a large body of water.

verb (used with object)

1. to overflow in or cover with a flood; fill to overflowing:
2. to cover or fill, as if with a flood:
3. to overwhelm with an abundance of something:
4. Automotive. to supply too much fuel to (the carburetor), so that the engine fails to start.
5. to floodlight.

verb (used without object)

1. to flow or pour in or as if in a flood.
2. to rise in a flood; overflow.
3. Pathology. to suffer uterine hemorrhage, especially in connection with childbirth. to have an excessive menstrual flow.

Origin of flooding

1665-75, for sense “flood”; see flood + -ing¹

Examples for flooding

Your boss politicians,” said Conroy, “have been flooding us out with telegrams.

Meanwhile her husband William and his brother Harry were busy laying sandbags in towns affected by flooding.

He recalls calling a meeting when “American Gypsies were flooding in by the carload” to Milwaukee.

The sun was flooding my chamber, and at my bedside stood Anatole.

The flooding of the Yser marks the end of the main struggle for Calais.

Its surgeons have had to deal with bombs, flooding and a shooter rampaging through the hospital.

Of the 397 wells Encana shut down when flooding began, about 150 are back online.

The game consists of flooding the bathroom with water, hiking up your skirt, and then gliding over the stream.

The moon had risen and was flooding the tumbled landscape with its cold, white light.

The fever was in his brain, the magic of the tropic moon was flooding his soul.