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A flood is an enormous amount of water. If the street is full of water, it's flooded. Too much of anything can also be called a flood. Whenever it rains and rains and rains, there's the danger of a flood, a type of disaster where water is out of control.
Inland flooding – The flooding of typically dry, low-lying areas away from the coast resulting from poor drainage. Inundation – The process of covering typically dry land with flood water.
Evaluation of a flood hazard (including the expected flood extent, depth and direction of flow) together with information about assets and people that are vulnerable to flooding to identify potential economic, social, cultural and environmental losses from flooding.
noun. (Netherlands) series of dams and drainage systems designed to isolate and dam the Zuiderzee, an inlet of the North Sea. A flood happens when water overflows or soaks land that is normally dry. There are few places on Earth where people don’t need to be concerned about flooding.
Floods, tides & currents SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. The SMART Vocabulary cloud shows the related words and phrases you can find in the Cambridge Dictionary that make up this topic. Click on a word to go to the definition.
Vocabulary: flash flood - a rapid rise of water along a stream or low-lying urban area . flood forecast - the use of many types of water data, like forecasted precipitation, streamflow, soil moisture, and snowmelt, to predict water levels and flow rates at particular locations along a river.
to fill or enter a place in large numbers or amounts. inundar. Donations are flooding into the homeless shelter. Las donaciones están inundando el refugio para los sintecho. She drew back the curtains and the sunlight came flooding in. Japanese cars have flooded the market (= a lot of them are on sale).
