Usually means: Overflow of water onto land.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. flood, the Flood, the flood: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. flood, the Flood: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. flood: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. flood, the Flood: Collins English Dictionary
  5. flood, the Flood: Vocabulary.com
  6. Flood, flood, the flood: Wordnik
  7. flood, the Flood: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Flood, flood: Wiktionary
  9. flood: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. flood: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. flood: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. flood, the flood: Dictionary.com
  13. flood (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. flood: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  16. Flood: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. flood: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. flood: Rhymezone
  19. flood: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. flood: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Flood: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. flood, the flood: Free Dictionary
  23. flood, the flood: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. flood, the Flood: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. flood: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. The Flood, flood: Legal dictionary

Computing (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. flood: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. flood: CCI Computer
  3. flood: Hacking Lexicon
  4. Flood (Bible), The Flood, flood: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Flood: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Flood (Bible), The Flood, flood: Medical dictionary
  4. Flood: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. The Flood, flood: Idioms

Religion (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Flood: Easton Bible
  2. Flood: Smith's Bible Dictionary
  3. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Illustrated Glossary of Geologic Terms (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. flood: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. The Flood: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Flood: Sports Definitions

Tech (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of video terms (No longer online)
  4. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  5. FLOOD: Glossary of Nautical Terms
  6. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)
  7. Oil and Gas Well Drilling and Servicing eTool (No longer online)
  8. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  9. Flood: Science In Your Watershed: Hydrologic Definitions
  10. Flood: Latitude Mexico
  11. Water-Science Glossary of Terms (No longer online)
  12. Glossary of Water Resource Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See flooded as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  An overflow (usually disastrous) of water from a lake or other body of water due to excessive rainfall or other input of water.
noun:  (figuratively) A large number or quantity of anything appearing more rapidly than can easily be dealt with.
noun:  The flowing in of the tide, opposed to the ebb.
noun:  A floodlight.
noun:  Menstrual discharge; menses.
noun:  (obsolete) Water as opposed to land.
verb:  To overflow, as by water from excessive rainfall.
verb:  To cover or partly fill as if by a flood.
verb:  (figuratively) To provide (someone or something) with a larger number or quantity of something than can easily be dealt with.
verb:  (Internet, transitive, intransitive) To paste numerous lines of text to (a chat system) in order to disrupt the conversation.
verb:  To bleed profusely, as after childbirth.
noun:  (biblical) The flood referred to in the Book of Genesis in the Hebrew Bible.
noun:  A surname.

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