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Definition: Flooded |
FloodedAdjective1. Covered with water; "the main deck was afloat (or awash)"; "the monsoon left the whole place awash"; "a flooded bathroom"; "inundated farmlands"; "an overflowing tub". 2. Rendered powerless especially by an excessive amount or profusion of something; "a desk flooded with applications"; "felt inundated with work"; "too much overcome to notice"; "a man engulfed by fear"; "swamped by work". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "flooded" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Synonyms: FloodedSynonyms: afloat(p) (adj), awash(p) (adj), engulfed (adj), inundated (adj), overcome (adj), overflowing (adj), overpowered (adj), overwhelmed (adj), swamped (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Flooded |
| English words defined with "flooded": afloat, alleviation, assuagement, awash ♦ Clough ♦ deluge ♦ engulfed ♦ flood, flooding ♦ implosion therapy, inundate, inundated ♦ overcome, overflowing, overpowered, overwhelmed ♦ Paddy, paddy field ♦ relief, rice paddy ♦ swamp, swamped. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "flooded": drain tunnel, drowned peat ♦ flood plain, Flood risk reduction program, Flooded Ice ♦ Hydric soil ♦ inspector, outside steam-distribution, IRRIGATOR, GRAVITY FLOW, I'sis ♦ land accretion, liquid suction heat interchanger ♦ manhole-and-underground-steam-line inspector ♦ plateau basalt ♦ SEWER-LINE REPAIRER, STEAM SERVICE INSPECTOR, submarine worker, surge drum ♦ warped peat, water hoist. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Me mind is a raging torrent flooded with rivulets of thought cascading in a waterfall of creative alternatives (Blazing Saddles ; writing credit: Andrew Bergman, Mel Brooks, Richard Pryor, Norman Steinberg, Alan Uger) I wouldn't live with you if the world were flooded with piss and you lived in a tree (Parenthood; writing credit: Lowell Ganz; Babaloo Mandel) The village is wide open to horsemen until the fields are flooded. One guard for each direction takes four; two more in reserve (Shichinin no samurai; writing credit: Shinobu Hashimoto; Akira Kurosawa) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | "Typical road conditions" Truck traversing flooded road Triangulation party of Ken Crosby. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | A dry lake bed flooded by late spring rains Level crew of Paul Taylor. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | AQUARIUS floats just before it is flooded and sunk to the reef. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP). |  | Flooded cropland in southwest Iowa. Credit: Keith McCall. |
 | Flooded homes in Iowa. Credit: Lynn Betts. |  | Flooded strawberry field near Oxnard, California. Credit: USDA. |
 | Ready for christening, in Drydock # Two at the Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, Virginia, 27 May 1937. Note that the drydock is already partially flooded. Blue appears to have her guns and torpedo tubes installed, and both ships' Mark 33 main battery gun directors are in place atop their forward superstructures. Credit: NAVY. |  | Man rowing canoe inside flooded dwelling. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Winter pastimes. They've flooded the tennis courts at the country club. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Tent of Arab chief, and water buffaloes, on flooded Babylonian plain. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Flooded Trees" by Julian Haworth Commentary: "Flooded trees in a landscape. Olympus OM1n, Ilford XP2." | "Drain" by Jed DuCaine Commentary: "A flooded drain at Pt Adelaide, SA, Australia." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Sylvie and Bruno Concluded | Carroll, Lewis | If a fire breaks out, the taps are turned, and in one minute the theatre is flooded, up to the very roof |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Her face was still flooded with tears, but her eyes began to fill, like the sky in the breaking of the dawn, with strange radiations of joy. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | Shame rose from his smitten heart and flooded his whole being |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | They squatted on their hams and looked out over the flooded land |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | When these neurons are stimulated by glutamate--even normal amounts of glutamate--their regular mechanisms go awry and they are flooded by calcium, with deadly consequences. (references) | |
Business | A decade ago, the market was flooded with U.S. and Asian manufactured vehicles. (references) | |
Newspapers are flooded with ads announcing discounts, special offers and road shows. (references) | ||
A flurry of discontinued titles has flooded the market, and retailers profit margins have suffered as a result. (references) | ||
Economic History | Sri Lanka | Farmers faced increased competition as rice imported in 1999 flooded the market. (references) |
El Salvador | Roughly 65,200 hectares were flooded, and the Salvadoran Government pronounced 374 people dead or missing. (references) | |
Ukraine | To date, the Ukrainian market has been flooded with cheap, low-quality goods from Turkey, China, the Middle East, and former Socialist-bloc countries. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Flooded" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 43.26% of the time. "Flooded" is used about 600 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 43.26% | 260 | 18,316 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 40.27% | 242 | 19,213 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 15.97% | 96 | 33,456 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.5% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 600 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "flooded": be flooded ♦ flooded gum ♦ flooded inundated swamped ♦ ground flooded. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "flooded": flash-flooded, half-flooded, newly-flooded, seasonally-flooded, silver-flooded, soon-to-be-flooded. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
flooded basement | 15 |
flooded car | 13 |
flooded | 10 |
flooded engine | 6 |
flooded greentimber | 4 |
flooded home | 3 |
battery flooded | 3 |
car flooded start | 3 |
cellar flooded | 3 |
carpet flooded | 3 |
being chip conveyor flooded lends plow themselves | 2 |
city flooded | 2 |
flooded car for sale | 2 |
carpet clean flooded | 2 |
flooded river | 2 |
flooded house | 2 |
flooded home picture | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "flooded"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | مغمور بالماء (immersed, submerged), غارق (deep, submerged, sunken). (various references) | |
Chinese | 澇 , 潦 (heavy rain), 充斥. (various references) | |
Danish | et omraade oversvoemmes (an area is inundated, or flooded). (various references) | |
Dutch | een gebied stroomt vol (an area is inundated, or flooded). (various references) | |
Finnish | olla tulvan vallassa (be flooded, be inundated), joet tulvivat (the streams flooded), hänelle tulvii kirjeitä (he is flooded with letters). (various references) | |
French | submergé, noyé, inondé (flood victim), envahi. (various references) | |
German | überschwemmte (deluged, inundated, swamped), überflutet (awash, floods). (various references) | |
Greek | μια περιοχή κατακλύζεται (an area is inundated, or flooded), μια περιοχή πλημμυρίζει (an area is inundated, or flooded). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מוצף, שטוף (addicted, flooding, rinsing, washing). (various references) | |
Hungarian | elárasztott (infested). (various references) | |
Indonesian | kebanjiran (over whelmed), keairan (imundated). (various references) | |
Italian | un territorio è inondato, s'inonda (an area is inundated, or flooded). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 浸る (to be flooded, to be soaked in), 水浸し (flooded out, submersion). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ひたる (to be flooded, to be soaked in), みずびたし (flooded out, submersion). (various references) | |
Korean | 범람하는 (Overflowed, Overflown). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oodedflay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | um território é inundado;um território inunda-se (an area is inundated, or flooded). (various references) | |
Spanish | inundado (afloat, awash). (various references) | |
Swedish | överflödande (abundant, affluent, exuberant, lavish, luxuriant, opulent, over-abundant, plentiful, profuse, superabundant). (various references) | |
Turkmen | joюgunly (gushing). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "flooded": reflooded, waterflooded. (additional references) | |
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"Flooded" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Falloden, floode, floooded, flooted, floozed, floused, Fludd, fodded, plooded. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "flooded" (pronounced flu"dud) |
| 5 | -l u" d u d | blooded. |
| 4 | -u" d u d | studded. |
| 3 | -d u d | abounded, acceded, accorded, abided, added, afforded, aided, alluded, amended, appended, applauded, apprehended, ascended, astounded, attended, avoided, awarded, backhanded, banded, barricaded, beaded, bearded, bedded, befriended, beheaded, bended, bladed, blended, blinded, blindfolded, blindsided, blockaded, boarded, bombarded, bonded, bounded, braided, branded, breaded, broadsided, brooded, candid, carded, cascaded, ceded, chided, clouded, coded, coincided, collided, colluded, commanded, commended, compounded, comprehended, conceded, concluded, confided, confounded, contended, corded, corresponded, corroded, crowded, decided, deeded, defended, defrauded, degraded, deluded, demanded, denuded, depended, derided, descended, disbanded, discarded, intruded, invaded, jaded, kidded, landed, larded, lauded, leaded, lightheaded, loaded, lopsided, disregarded, dissuaded, distended, divided, downgraded, downloaded, dreaded, dumbfounded, eluded, embedded, encoded, ended, enshrouded, eroded, evaded, evenhanded, exceeded, excluded, expanded, expended, exploded, expounded, extended, extruded, exuded, faded, fended, feuded, fielded, folded, forwarded, founded, funded, gilded, glided, goaded, graded, grounded, guarded, guided, handed, hardheaded, headed, heeded, heralded, herded, hoarded, homesteaded, hooded, hounded, imbedded, impeded, imploded, impounded, included, intended, interceded, masterminded, melded, mended, minded, misguided, molded, muddleheaded, needed, nodded, offended, outmoded, overcrowded, overextended, overfunded, overloaded, padded, paraded, persuaded, pervaded, pleaded, plodded, pounded, preceded, precluded, prerecorded, presided, pretended, prided, proceeded, prodded, propounded, provided, raided, railroaded, rebounded, receded, recommended, recorded, redheaded, refunded, regarded, reloaded, remanded, reminded, remolded, reprimanded, rescinded, resided, responded, retarded, rewarded, rounded, safeguarded, sanded, scalded, scolded, seceded, secluded, seconded, seeded, serenaded, shaded, shepherded, shielded, shredded, shrouded, sided, skidded, sordid, sounded, spearheaded, speeded, splendid, stampeded, stranded, subdivided, subsided, succeeded, superseded, surrounded, suspended, tended, threaded, traded, transcended, trended, unaided, unamended, unattended, unbounded, unbranded, undecided, underfunded, underhanded, undivided, unexploded, unfolded, unfounded, unfunded, unguarded, unheeded, unheralded, unimpeded, unintended, unleaded, unloaded, unneeded, unrecorded, upbraided, upgraded, voided, wadded, waded, warded, wedded, weeded, welded, wielded, winded, wooded, worded, wounded, wrongheaded, yielded. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-d-e-f-l-o-o" | |
-1 letter: doodle, folded, fooled. | |
-2 letters: doled, flood, looed. | |
-3 letters: delf, dodo, dole, eddo, feod, fled, floe, fold, food, fool, lode, loof, oleo. | |
-4 letters: del, doe, dol, eld, elf, fed, foe, led, loo, odd, ode, old, ole. | |
-5 letters: de, do, ed, ef, el, lo, od, oe, of. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-d-e-f-l-o-o" | |
+2 letters: offloaded, reflooded. | |
+3 letters: flapdoodle. | |
+4 letters: flapdoodles. | |
+5 letters: childproofed, confoundedly, floodlighted, waterflooded. | |
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