flooded
被淹没的,被淹没,被水淹没的,被水淹没
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Definitions
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- : a great flowing or overflowing of water, especially over land not usually submerged.
- : any great outpouring or stream: a flood of tears.
- : the Flood, the universal deluge recorded as having occurred in the days of Noah. Genesis 7.
- : the rise or flowing in of the tide.
- : a floodlight.
- : Archaic. a large body of water.
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- : to overflow in or cover with a flood; fill to overflowing: Don't flood the bathtub.
- : to cover or fill, as if with a flood: The road was flooded with cars.
- : to overwhelm with an abundance of something: to be flooded with mail.
- : Automotive. to supply too much fuel to, so that the engine fails to start.
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Examples
As a result, poorer municipalities have less access to preparedness money for storms and floods.
When you’ve got a few billion years to work with, it’s very possible that each valley experienced everything from glacial erosion to lava flows to surging floods under silver skies.
The mayor of Imperial Beach, a border city blighted by frequent beach closures due to Tijuana River sewage runoff, says he needs short-term solutions for the floods his residents face while the federal government makes its decision.
With rains and storms, a river flood might have swept the dino’s body out to sea.
Too much rain can result in floods that destroy homes and lives.
Brazen cherry-picking of the information in this story inspired a flood of “Bush Was Right All Along!”
Cubans would flood the streets once again ousting the Castro brothers who have now been in power for 55 years.
God kills every living thing (non-fish, non-Noah category) in a global flood.
In our Capitol, Albany lawmakers enjoy a flood of money, personal accounts, and protection for incumbents against attacks.
When the family was fine, or when a cruel employee at the dam was behind the flood, God was left out of the explanation.
Various impulses urged him into a pouring flood of words; yet he gave expression to none of them.
And as a flood hath watered the earth; so shall his wrath inherit the nations, that have not sought after him.
“Flood”—Cleveland vetoed an unprecedented number of bills during his term.
It was a rather depressed stock-hand, name of Flood, who blew cigarette smoke out over the brow of Writing-Stone that evening.