flood|flooded|flooding|floods in English
verb
[flʌd]
inundate; brim over, overflow; submerge, engulf; gush, surge; overwhelm
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1. Australia floods: evacuations continue across flooded parts of NSW – video
2. Bangkok has seen only brief and minor flooding since the major flood of 1995.
3. Historical records prove that the flood plains contained considerable areas of non-flooded lands. The former alluvial forests were found not only on flooded plains, but also in rarely or never flooded river basins.
4. Nationwide, Zeb destroyed 770 homes and flooded another 12,548, with thousands forced to evacuate their homes due to flooding.
5. The adjustment of rivers impacts on flood plains, biodiversity, the supply of drinking water and flooding surrounding low lands.
6. Flooding disrupted rail services in three areas of Devon and Cornwall where flood warnings were issued on 33 rivers.
7. As noted, if you live in a high-risk area for flooding, your mortgage lender will insist you buy flood insurance.
8. Action plan: Abating the detriment of massive flooding MASSIVE FLOODING With an average of 19 typhoons, heavy monsoon rains and massive floods hitting the country every year, the Philippines is no doubt a disaster prone country and the 89 million Filipinos should …
9. The normal features of flood areas generally include wetlands, alluvial forests, other types of flood plain, debris cones caused by torrential floods in mountainous areas, lagoon marshes and several features (many of these associated with ecologically valuable ecosystems) indicating the limits of floods, which, as already stated, are events associated with the normal functioning of river and coastal systems
10. The normal features of flood areas generally include wetlands, alluvial forests, other types of flood plain, debris cones caused by torrential floods in mountainous areas, lagoon marshes and several features (many of these associated with ecologically valuable ecosystems) indicating the limits of floods, which, as already stated, are events associated with the normal functioning of river and coastal systems.
11. Flooding quickly spread from the North to the Central Chao Phraya River Basin, and by the beginning of October, the province of Ayutthaya, north of Bangkok, was almost flooded.
12. The floods created havoc.
13. The floods, the plages...
14. The floods in South Asia are still causing havoc. imperfect world 2007 takes aerial photographs of the area around the Dhaka airport, showing large areas still under flood water.
15. The Brays Bayou watershed is the target of the Harris County Flood Control District’s Project Brays, a $500 million effort to reduce the risk of flooding within the watershed
16. Additionally, macroscopic and microscopic observations of flooded trees indicated that acute injury occurred in the stem base and, under some conditions, the cortex in this region developed an aerenchyma induced by flooding.
17. Thousands of camels and snakes, drowned by flood waters, were swept out to sea, and massive Roman bridges, which withstood all floods since the fall of the Roman Empire, collapsed.
18. The floods caused a landslide.
19. The river flooded the valley.
20. Train lines were flooded out.
21. It all came flooding back.
22. The floods caved in that dike.
23. The floods surged along the valley.
24. During spring rains the river floods.
25. The cellar was flooded with water.