floods
Rivers breaching banks
Floods are overflows of water onto normally dry land—rivers breaching banks, storm surges swamping coasts, heavy rains overwhelming drainage.
The word extends to any overwhelming quantity: a flood of emails, a flood of memories.
To flood is to inundate: Light flooded the room.
The market was flooded with cheap imports.
The biblical Flood was the deluge survived by Noah.
Overwhelming surge of water
- delugeSevere overflow of water
- overflowExceed capacity and spill
- rising watersIncreasing water levels
- evacuationRemoval from danger
sandbags · levee · mudslide · devastation · relief · rescue · displacement · damage
Sudden large arrival
- surgeSudden powerful increase
- delugeSevere overflow of water
- torrentViolent rushing flow
- waveOscillating motion through medium
barrage · onslaught · avalanche · overwhelming · inundation · stream · cascade · rush
inundation
Overwhelming surge of water
- delugeSevere overflow of water
- overflowExceed capacity and spill
- rising watersIncreasing water levels
evacuation · sandbags · levee · mudslide · devastation · relief · rescue · displacement · damage · submerged
influx
Sudden large arrival
wave · barrage · onslaught · avalanche · overwhelming · inundation · stream · cascade · rush · glut
tears
Violent pulls apart
outpouring · sobbing · breakdown · release · catharsis · overcome · streaming · uncontrollable · emotional · distraught
flats
Dwellings or low shoes
- fliesWinged buzzing pests
- floatsRemains on surface
- footlightsLamps at stage edge
stage · pit · bridge · border · gallery · grid · lights · wings · apron · spots
- disastersdisaster, earthquake, earthquakes, catastrophe, calamity
- Natural Processesphotosynthesis, decomposition, evaporation, erosion, carbon cycle
- catastrophesdisasters, disaster, natural disasters, catastrophe, apocalypse
- global issuesclimate change, water scarcity, inequality, pandemics, poverty
- urban hazardspotholes, crime, traffic, accidents, sinkholes
- hydrologyrivers, streamflow, aquifers, aquifer, lakes
floodsdroughts
Extended periods without precipitation
drought · desiccation · dries up · aridity · water scarcity
- Noah's floodScripture's world-drowning catastrophe
- flash floodRapid overflow from storms
- flood warningAlert about rising waters
- flash floodingRapid overflow from storms
- flood zoneArea susceptible to inundation
- flood plainRiver-adjacent overflow zone
flood, flooded, flooding, floodgate, floodlight, floodwater, floodplain, floodlights, floodwaters