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Flood out   /fləd aʊt/   Listen
Flood out

verb
1.
Charge someone with too many tasks.  Synonyms: deluge, overwhelm.






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"Flood out" Quotes from Famous Books



... singularly clear, seemed to flood out of some unknown source. For the sun was hidden. The clouds just above Carley hung low, and they were like thick, heavy smoke, mushrooming, coalescing, forming and massing, of strange yellow cast of nature. It shaded westward into heliotrope and this into a purple so royal, so matchless ...
— The Call of the Canyon • Zane Grey

... baked by her and Annie,—a triumph of amateur housekeeping—being passed by the latter in pieces among the cake, I imagined that it tasted like the sacrament, and utterly lost track of what the merry girl was saying. She left me to flood out her spirits on a friend who was rising to go; whereupon I ...
— The Young Seigneur - Or, Nation-Making • Wilfrid Chateauclair



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