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单词 on flood
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on (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.
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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.
figurative and in extended use.?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 61 Of an drope waxeð an muche flod & adrencheð þe saule.a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xvi. 198 Alas, my hart is all on flood.a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) i. vi. 75 With his eyes in flood with laughter. View more context for this quotation1864 Ld. Tennyson Aylmer's Field in Enoch Arden, etc. 68 His passions all in flood And masters of his motion.1883 Macfadyen in Congregational Year Bk. 39 Floods of unbelief and carelessness have overspread the land.
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