Flooding is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for FLOODING in dictionary:

VERB:
• cover or submerge (an area) with water in a flood
• become covered or submerged by a flood
• (of a flood) force (someone) to leave their home.
• (of a river) become swollen and overflow (its banks).
• overfill the carburettor of (an engine) with petrol, causing the engine to fail to start.
• arrive in overwhelming amounts or quantities
• completely fill or suffuse
• overwhelm with large amounts or quantities
• (of a woman) experience a uterine haemorrhage.
NOUN:
• the act of flooding
• an overflow of a large amount of water beyond its normal limits, especially over what is normally dry land
• the biblical flood brought by God upon the earth because of the wickedness of the human race (Gen. 6 ff.).
• the inflow of the tide.
• a river, stream, or sea.
• an outpouring of tears
• an overwhelming quantity of things or people happening or appearing at the same time
• The filling or covering with water or other fluid; overflow; inundation; the filling anything to excess.
• An abnormal or excessive discharge of blood from the uterus.
• a technique used in behavior therapy; client is flooded with experiences of a particular kind until becoming either averse to them or numbed to them
• submerging of land under water
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to inundate
• submerging of land under water, esp due to heavy rain, a lake or river overflowing, etc
• a filling with fluid to excess

Words related to FLOODING

flood9 flooded12 floodings14 floods10

Words that contain FLOODING

floodings14 reflooding15 overflooding20 waterflooding21 waterfloodings22

How to use FLOODING in a sentence

• It was chiefly by Christianity that the raw, wild hordes which came flooding in were controlled and tamed.
• The moon had just risen above the horizon, large and round, flooding the room with a silvery light, in which they saw each other as in a dream light infinitely bright and sweet.
• Springs burst out, like the jet of a fountain, under the stroke of the pick, flooding and driving away the workmen.
• A she-monkey is trapped in the middle of the flooding river.
• The sun was up, flooding the wall of his cabin, when he awoke, and under him he could feel the roll of the open sea.
• When she had ascertained, by peeping out several times, that the lady had not seen her, she watched more carefully, all her instinctive hatred flooding back at the sight of her.
• The colour was flooding back into her face in an excited, feverish flush.
• The late moon had risen and was flooding the grounds with its light, bringing out distinctly the objects nearest to him.
• The morning sun flooding the room, fell upon her hair and face, and had her lover seen her then, he would have admired her more than ever.
• It was a charming early September evening, and the sunset glow burned through the avenue of elm trees, beneath which the girls were passing, flooding the way with rare beauty.
• He stopped to pat it with a great pity, a sense of too much pathos in things flooding him, before he passed out again into the mean street.
• With an effort he choked back the flooding emotion.
• He shut his jaws and drove the flooding thoughts from his mind.
• Lancelot stared fixedly at the fire, trying to keep the blood from flooding his cheeks.
• They knew that the heavy rain had made the lake rise almost to the point of flooding the water front at Tiberias.
• In Russia it is a domestic medicine for the arrest of flooding.
• The tide came in flooding the pools in which they were standing and warning them that it was time to leave.
• The sun peeping out of the clouds, and flooding these features with a sudden, transient river of light, gives them a glow and glory that would delight the artist.
• I hear a quick, loud cry, rending the silence and falling into a roar like that of flooding waters.
• As Hugh gazed, the sun rose into view, flooding earth and sky and sea with glorious light.
• Another serious danger, or, when not danger, at least discomfort, came from the trick which the Tiber has always had of flooding the lower parts of the city.
• The rivers and lakes are swollen and frequently overflow, flooding large tracts of low country.
• The darkness cannot shut out the light, nor keep it down, nor resist the gentle resistless power of its soft clear flooding.
• The morning stillness came flooding into the cup-shaped valley like a soft, resistless wave.

Similar words containing FLOOD without suffix ing

flood9 floods10 flooded12 flooder11 reflood11 flooders12 floodlit12 floodway18 refloods12 fireflood16 floodable15 floodgate14 floodings14 floodless13 floodmark19 floodtide14 floodwall16 floodways19 overflood16 reflooded14 firefloods17 floodgates15 floodlight18 floodmarks20 floodplain16 floodtides15 floodwalls17 floodwater17 overfloods17 photoflood19 reflooding15 waterflood17 floodlights19 floodplains17 floodwaters18 overflooded19 photofloods20 waterfloods18 floodlighted21 overflooding20 waterflooded20 floodlighting22 waterflooding21 floodlightings23 waterfloodings22

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