单词 | on flood |
释义 | > as lemmason (a) flood a. An overflowing or irruption of a great body of water over land not usually submerged; an inundation, a deluge. in flood, †on (a) flood: (of a river, etc.) overflowing its banks; (of land) in an inundated condition. 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 > the earth > water > flow or flowing > flood or flooding > in flood [phrase] > flooded on (a) floodc1374 on (a) float1523 the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > flood or flooding > in flood [phrase] on (a) float1523 in flood1874 c1000 West Saxon Gospels: Matt. (Corpus Cambr.) vii. 25 Þa com þær ren, & mycele flod. 1125 Anglo-Saxon Chron. anno 1125 On ðes ilces geares wearð swa micel flod..þæt feola tunes & men weorðan adrencte. c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde iii. 591 Campsall MS. (640) Syn it ron, and al was on a flode. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 1042 Þis paradis es sett sua hei, þat moght neuer flod ani þar nei. 1496 in T. Dickson Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1877) I. 283 For bering of the Kingis treis that the flude hed away. 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III iv. iv. 441 By sudden floud, and fall of water, The Duke of Buckinghams armie is disperst. View more context for this quotation 1673 J. Ray Observ. Journey Low-countries 8 Great Rivers, which..in times of Floods brought down with them abundance of Earth. 1781 W. Cowper Charity 282 Shipwreck..fire, and flood, Are mighty mischiefs. 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. xi. 78 On one occasion, when the floods were out, he exposed his life to imminent risk. 1874 Froude in S. Afr. Notes 13–19 Dec. The rivers in the colony are reported to be in flood. < as lemmas |
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