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flooding   (TTS Sound)

The noun flooding has 1 sense

• implosion therapy, flooding -- (a technique used in behavior therapy; client is flooded with experiences of a particular kind until becoming either averse to them or numbed to them)

The verb flood has 4 senses

• deluge, flood, inundate, swamp -- (fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid; "the basement was inundated after the storm"; "The images flooded his mind")


• flood -- (cover with liquid, usually water; "The swollen river flooded the village"; "The broken vein had flooded blood in her eyes")


• flood, oversupply, glut -- (supply with an excess of; "flood the market with tennis shoes"; "Glut the country with cheap imports from the Orient")


• flood -- (become filled to overflowing; "Our basement flooded during the heavy rains")