flood

Significado (Inglés)

Noun

1. An overflow of a large amount of water (usually disastrous) from a lake or other body of water due to excessive rainfall or other input of water.
2. (figuratively) A large number or quantity of anything appearing more rapidly than can easily be dealt with.
3. The flowing in of the tide, opposed to the ebb.
4. A floodlight.
5. Menstrual discharge; menses.
6. (obsolete) Water as opposed to land.

Verb

1. To overflow, as by water from excessive rainfall.
2. To cover or partly fill as if by a flood.
3. (figuratively) To provide (someone or something) with a larger number or quantity of something than can easily be dealt with.
4. (Internet, ambitransitive) To paste numerous lines of text to (a chat system) in order to disrupt the conversation.
5. To bleed profusely, as after childbirth.

Conceptos

inundación

inundar

avenida

diluvio

aluvión

pleamar

riada

torrente

alud

anegar

invadir

huayco

torrentada

crecida

marea alta

avalancha

abrumar

enterrar

empantanar

anegarse

chorrear

colmar

corrimiento de tierras

derrumbe

encharcar

sedimentación

aguazar

apantanar

aguas llenas

salir de madre las aguas

avenida torrentera

huaico

caer el agua

caer el agua en cascada

alagar

abrevar

marea humana

aguar

arriar

buccear

congestión

desbordamiento

fluir

flujo

invasión

manar

mojar

pulular

regar

remojar

Sinónimos

overflow

deluge

inundation

inundate

flow

high water

swamp

stream

submerge

alluvion

torrent

surge

freshet

overwhelm

spate

high tide

flood tide

fill

overflowing

rising tide

gush

cover

rush

engulf

pour

irrigate

water

🚰

avalanche

river

photoflood

outpouring

landslide

flow over

drown

flowing water

drench

flowage

floodwater

brim over

cataclysm

floodlight

flooding

flood lamp

spread

sea

🌊

shower

🚿

plenty

soak

tide

dump

Traducciones

inondation

inondazione

Flut

alluvione

Überschwemmung

inonder

inondare

inundação

πλημμύρα

overstroming

inundació

Hochwasser

überfluten

déluge

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/flʌd/

Etimología (Inglés)

Heredado de inglés medio: flod

Heredado de inglés antiguo: flōd

Cognado con escocés: flude

Cognado con Saterfriesisch: Floud

Cognado con neerlandés: vloed

Cognado con alemán: Flut

Cognado con danés: flod

Cognado con islandés: flóð

Cognado con gótico: 𐍆𐌻𐍉𐌳𐌿𐍃

In summary

From Middle English flod, from Old English flōd, from Proto-West Germanic *flōdu, from Proto-Germanic *flōduz, from *plew- (“to flow”). Cognate with Scots flude, fluid, Saterland Frisian Floud, Dutch vloed, German Flut, Danish flod, Icelandic flóð, and Gothic 𐍆𐌻𐍉𐌳𐌿𐍃 (flōdus).