单词 | flooding |
释义 | floodingn. 1. a. The action of flood v.; an instance of it. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > flood or flooding > [noun] streamc950 water floodOE floodc1000 waterOE diluvya1325 waterganga1325 flowinga1340 delugec1374 diluvec1386 Noah's floodc1390 overflowing1430 inundation1432 flowa1450 surrounding1449 over-drowninga1500 spate1513 float1523 drowning1539 ravine1545 alluvion1550 surundacion1552 watershot1567 overflow1589 ravage1611 inunding1628 surroundera1642 water breach1669 flooding1799 debacle1802 diluviation1816 deluging1824 superflux1830 whelm1842 come1862 floodage1862 sheet-flood1897 flash flooding1939 flash-flood1940 the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > condition of being or making very wet > [noun] > action or process soak1598 drenching1626 sobbing1664 saturation1732 flooding1799 swamping1802 drench1807 water-soaking1849 soddening1852 soakage1867 1799 J. Robertson Gen. View Agric. Perth 166 Rivers, which, by their flooding, have..formed the richest and deepest mould. b. plural. Floods. In quots. figurative: Fullness, superabundance. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > excessive amount or degree > [noun] > superabundance flood1340 overabundancea1382 abundancec1384 excessa1387 superfluitya1387 surcarka1400 superabundance?a1475 superfluencea1477 abundancy?1526 superfluousnessa1540 pleurisya1550 inundation1589 exsuperance1603 plethory1606 overplus1609 exuberancy1611 redoundancy1623 superabundancy1628 exsuperancy1638 exuberance1638 floodings1674 plethora1700 embarrassment1815 profligacy1834 overfullness1884 1674 N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge Ep. Ded. To..drown their sorrows for the jewel that was lost, in the floudings of their joy for the Cabinet that was left. 1844 E. B. Barrett Drama of Exile in Poems I. 23 Thy body heaves Under the golden floodings of thine hair! 2. A popular term for uterine hæmorrhage, esp. in connection with parturition. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > discharge or flux > [noun] > bleeding or flow of blood > from uterus flood1666 flooding1710 metrorrhagia1857 metrostaxis1886 spotting1891 1710 T. Fuller Pharmacopœia Extemporanea 299 I should by no means advise it to any..apt to Flouding. 1859 Waller in R. T. Hulme tr. C. H. Moquin-Tandon Elem. Med. Zool. ii. iii. 162 Cases of hæmorrhage..which from their severity are termed ‘floodings’. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online June 2019). > as lemmasˈflooding ˈflooding adj. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > flood or flooding > [adjective] > flooding or overflowing delavya1400 floating1578 swimmingc1595 overfloten1601 gulf-eating?1611 overflowing1611 overrunning1611 tideful1622 inundant1629 diluvial1656 exuberant1678 diluviana1684 overflown1818 deluging1824 deluginous1835 insurgent1849 flooding1850 overstreaming1860 the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > abundance > [adjective] > flowing abundantly pouring1577 streaming1579 fluenta1592 affluent1704 gushingc1709 flooding1850 the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > discharge or flux > [adjective] > of blood > bleeding > from uterus metrorrhagic1857 flooding1891 1628 O. Felltham Resolves: 2nd Cent. liii. sig. R6v They..power a plenty on the generall world..Surely, wee nickname this same floudding man, when wee call him by the name of Braue. 1850 E. B. Browning tr. Æschylus Prometheus Bound (rev. ed.) in Poems (new ed.) I. 179 By the flow Of flooding Nile. 1891 Galabin Midwifery (ed. 2) 731 Certain women have a constitutional proclivity to flooding..and have been described as ‘flooders’. < n.1674 as lemmas |
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