flood sth with sth
— phrasal verb with flood uk/flʌd/us/flʌd/verb
C2 If you are flooded with letters, phone calls, messages, etc., you receive so many that you cannot deal with them:
We were flooded with calls from worried parents.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Too much and unnecessary
- a sledgehammer to crack a nut idiom
- avalanche
- be up to your neck (in sth) idiom
- bellyful
- binge
- carry/take coals to Newcastle idiom
- immoderate
- inessential
- insatiable
- lousy
- make a pig of yourself idiom
- plenty
- plethora
- proliferate
- redundancy
- redundant
- sock
- supplementary
- surplus
- weigh
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