flood

Signification (Anglais)

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.

Concepts

inondation

inonder

déluge

submerger

déborder

marée haute

crue

flot

abreuver

🚰

afflux

combler

débordement

flux

noyer

torrent

marée

alluvion

avalanche

monter

flooder

se ruer

affluer

être en crue

sédimentation

submersion

cru

couler

envahir

grandes crues

averse

🚿

Synonymes

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

Traductions

inundación

inondazione

Flut

alluvione

Überschwemmung

inondare

inundar

inundação

πλημμύρα

overstroming

inundació

Hochwasser

überfluten

inundar

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/flʌd/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: flod

Hérité de ancien anglais: flōd

Appartenant à écossais: flude

Appartenant à saterlandais: Floud

Appartenant à néerlandais: vloed

Appartenant à allemand: Flut

Appartenant à danois: flod

Appartenant à islandais: flóð

Appartenant à gotique: 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).