flood

Senso (Inglese)

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.

Concetti

inondazione

alluvione

inondare

allagare

piena

diluvio

marea

alta marea

flusso

straripare

valanga

allagamento

invadere

acqua alta

subissare

bagnare

🛀

riflettore

sedimentazione

subisso

torrente

tracimazione di un fiume

tracimazione di un lago

valanga di fango

cadere dell’acqua

huayco

affluenza

marea crescente

affluso

annaffiare

🚰

fluire

frana

innaffiare

invasione

scarica

scorrere

sorgere

allagarsi

colmare

gocciolare

profluvio

proiettore

pullulare

sinonimi

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

Traduzioni

inondation

inundación

Flut

Überschwemmung

inonder

inundar

inundação

πλημμύρα

inundació

overstroming

Hochwasser

überfluten

inundar

déluge

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/flʌd/

Etimologia (Inglese)

Ereditato da inglese medio: flod

Ereditato da inglese antico: flōd

Affine scozzese: flude

Affine saterfriesisch: Floud

Affine olandese: vloed

Affine tedesco: Flut

Affine danese: flod

Affine islandese: flóð

Affine gotico: 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).