flooding — ozdic

Collocations

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ADJ.

coastal, due, heavy, increasing, last, old, periodic, prepared

VERB + FLOODING

came, cause, causing, disrupted, kept, lead, rain, reports

FLOODING + NOUN

human, junction, nile, tom

PREP.

after, from, in, in, out

Definitions

noun

1

An act of flooding; a flood or gush.

And by the same token it was plain that there had also been a hundred and seventy-five floodings of the earth and depositings of limestone strata!

[...] at Cowley Bridge Junction, east of Exeter, both lines were impassable from about 1.30 p.m.—the first flooding of the junction for 36 years—and by the evening the water had risen two-thirds of the way up the platforms at St. Davids as Exeter faced its worst flooding for 60 years.

2

Emotional overwhelm sometimes leading to a primal state of rage or panic.

3

A form of therapy that treats a phobia by suddenly exposing the patient to the object of the phobia, instead of approaching it gradually.

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Example Bank

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01

And by the same token it was plain that there had also been a hundred and seventy-five floodings of the earth and depositings of limestone strata!

Wiktionary

02

[...] at Cowley Bridge Junction, east of Exeter, both lines were impassable from about 1.30 p.m.—the first flooding of the junction for 36 years—and by the evening the water had risen two-thirds of th

Wiktionary

03

The radio warned us of the possibility of flooding.

Tatoeba · #29793

04

The typhoon resulted in a lot of flooding.

Tatoeba · #45528

05

Memories of the good old days came flooding back one after another.

Tatoeba · #272143

06

We had flooding because of last week's heavy rains.

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Usage Notes

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In some senses, flooding is marked as figuratively. Watch for register when choosing this word.