What is the meaning of flood?

noun

• The rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land.
  • usage: "plains fertilized by annual inundations"
  • synonyms: inundation, deluge, alluvion
• An overwhelming number or amount.
  • usage: "a flood of requests"; "a torrent of abuse"
  • synonyms: inundation, deluge, torrent
• Light that is a source of artificial illumination having a broad beam; used in photography.
  • synonyms: floodlight, flood lamp, photoflood
• A large flow.
  • synonyms: overflow, outpouring
• The act of flooding; filling to overflowing.
  • synonyms: flowage
• The occurrence of incoming water (between a low tide and the following high tide. ) "a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune" -Shakespeare
  • synonyms: flood tide, rising tide

verb

• Fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid.
  • usage: "the basement was inundated after the storm"; "The images flooded his mind"
  • synonyms: deluge, inundate, swamp
• Cover with liquid, usually water.
  • usage: "The swollen river flooded the village"; "The broken vein had flooded blood in her eyes"
• Supply with an excess of.
  • usage: "flood the market with tennis shoes"; "Glut the country with cheap imports from the Orient"
  • synonyms: oversupply, glut
• Become filled to overflowing.
  • usage: "Our basement flooded during the heavy rains"