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flood

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"Overflow of water"

5 letters · collected on this word page

5 lettersPronunciation /flʌd/Part of speech verb, nounSorted dflooStarts with FEnds with D1 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. cover with liquid, usually water

Word origin

From Middle English flod, from Old English flōd, from Proto-West Germanic *flōdu, from Proto-Germanic *flōduz, from *plew- (“to flow”). 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).

Used in a sentence

  • a covenant never to destroy the earth again by flood
  • a flood of complaints
  • There is a tide in the affairs of men, / Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.

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