flood
noun (WATER) /flʌd/Definition
B1 [C or U] a large amount of water covering an area that is usually dry: After the flood it took weeks for the water level to go down. The river is in flood (= water has flowed over its banks) again.Floods, tides and currents in floods of tears UK › crying a lot: I found her in floods of tears in the toilets.Weeping and crying the Flood › (in the Bible) a flood sent by God that covered the whole Earth as a punishmentThe Bible - people, events and places
(Definition of flood noun (WATER) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- bawl verb (CRY)
- blubber verb
- boohoo exclamation
- burst out laughing/crying idiom
- crocodile tears noun
- crumple verb
- cry-baby noun
- grizzle verb
- lachrymose adjective
- mist (sth) over/up phrasal verb
- misty-eyed adjective
- not a dry eye in the house idiom
- not know whether to laugh or cry idiom
- snivel verb
- teardrop noun
- weep buckets idiom
- weep verb (CRY)
- weepy adjective
- weepy noun
- wept verb
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Weeping and crying
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