Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗An overflow of a large amount of water (usually disastrous) from a lake or other body of water due to excessive rainfall or other input of water. · A large number or quantity of anything appearing more rapidly than can easily be dealt with. · The flowing in of the tide, opposed to the ebb. · A floodlight.
To overflow, as by water from excessive rainfall. · To cover or partly fill as if by a flood. · To provide (someone or something) with a larger number or quantity of something than can easily be dealt with. · To paste numerous lines of text to (a chat system) in order to disrupt the conversation.
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pleh₃(w)-der. Proto-Germanic *flōduz Proto-West Germanic *flōdu Old English flōd Middle English flod English flood Inherited from Middle English flod, from Old English flōd, from Proto-West Germanic *flōdu, from Proto-Germanic *flōduz, from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₃(w)-. Cognate with Scots flude, fluid, Saterland Frisian Floud, Dutch vloed, German Flut, Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish flod, Icelandic flóð, and Gothic 𐍆𐌻𐍉𐌳𐌿𐍃 (flōdus).
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