| 单词 | flood |
| 释义 | verb | noun floodflood1 /flʌd/ ●●○ verb 1COVER WITH WATER [intransitive, transitive] earth science, geography to make a place become covered with water, or to become covered with water: Farmers flood the fields in order to grow rice. The whole town flooded last summer.2RIVER [intransitive] earth science, geography if a river floods, water rises up over its edges and covers the land around it: The river usually floods once or twice a year.3ARRIVE/GO IN LARGE NUMBERS [intransitive always + adv./prep.] to arrive or go somewhere in large numbers or amounts: flood in/into/out/across etc. Refugees flooded across the border. Offers of help soon started flooding in.4SEND IN LARGE AMOUNTS [transitive] to send or give a large number of something to a person, organization, country, etc., especially so many that it becomes difficult to deal with them all: flood somebody/something with something Voters flooded Congress with letters of protest. The office has been flooded with applications for the job.5flood the market to sell something or be sold in very large numbers or amounts, especially so that the price goes down: Special sports drinks are now flooding the market.flood with Producers have recently flooded the market with crude oil.6be flooded out to be forced to leave your home because of a flood7somebody’s eyes flood with tears (also tears flood somebody’s eyes) literary used to say that someone begins to cry a lot8LIGHT [intransitive, transitive] literary if light floods a place or floods into it, it makes it very light and bright: The small room was flooded with light.9ENGINE [intransitive, transitive] if an engine floods or you flood it, it has too much gas in it, so that it will not start10FEELING [intransitive, transitive] literary if a feeling or memory floods someone, he or she feels or remembers it very strongly: flood over/back/through He saw her and relief flooded over him. Her childhood memories came flooding back.11COLOR [intransitive, transitive] literary if color floods your face or cheeks or your face or cheeks flood with color, your face suddenly turns red because of a strong emotion verb | noun floodflood2 ●●○ noun 1[countable, uncountable] earth science, geography a very large amount of water that covers an area that is usually dry: The town was completely destroyed by floods. aid for flood victims2a flood of somebody/something a very large number or amount of people or things that arrive at the same time: The station has received a flood of complaints about last night’s show. The door opened, letting in a flood of light.3the Flood the great flood described in the Bible story, that covered the world → see also flash flood |
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