English Dictionary

flood

/flʌd/

noun

An overflow (usually disastrous) of water from a lake or other body of water due to excessive rainfall or other input of water.

The flood destroyed many homes in the village.

意味（1）

An overflow (usually disastrous) of water from a lake or other body of water due to excessive rainfall or other input of water.

a covenant never to destroy the earth again by flood

意味（2）

(figuratively) A large number or quantity of anything appearing more rapidly than can easily be dealt with.

a flood of complaints

意味（3）

The flowing in of the tide, opposed to the ebb.

There is a tide in the affairs of men, / Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.

意味（4）

A floodlight.

意味（5）

Menstrual discharge; menses.

意味（6）

(obsolete) Water as opposed to land.

Who beheld from the safe shore their floating carcasses and broken chariot-wheels. So thick bestrown, abject and lost, lay these, covering the flood, under amazement of their hideous change.