flood waters
Rising inundation current
Flood waters are the waters that overflow onto normally dry land during a flood, whether from rivers bursting their banks, storm surges, or heavy rainfall overwhelming drainage systems.
The term emphasizes the dangerous, destructive nature of this water—contaminated, fast-moving, and unpredictable.
Flood waters rose to six feet in some neighborhoods.
They were warned not to drive through flood waters.
Often written as one word: floodwaters.
- overflowExceed capacity and spill
- delugeSevere overflow of water
- rising tideOcean level increasing
- submersionBeing entirely underwater
- rushQuick sudden movement
inundation · currents · highwater · engulfment · surge · swept away · debris · murk · mud · churning · torrent · swell · brown · levees · hydraulic · rescue boats · streamflow · foam
- floodwateroverflow, deluge, inundation, storm surge, levee breach
- torrentstorrent, deluge, downpour, gush, outpouring
flood watersdrought
Prolonged water scarcity
dry spell · water shortage · aridity · desiccation · trickle
flood watersgentle stream
still waters · calm waters · trickle · babbling brook · meandering stream
flood watersparched land
Extremely dry territory
dry land · desert · dustbowl · cracked earth · arid terrain
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