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Flooding

noun

1.

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. Synonym: implosion therapy.

Flood

verb

(past & past part. flooded; pres. part. flooding)

1.

Fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid. Synonyms: deluge, inundate, swamp. "The images flooded his mind"

2.

Cover with liquid, usually water. "The broken vein had flooded blood in her eyes"

3.

Supply with an excess of. Synonyms: glut, oversupply. "Glut the country with cheap imports from the Orient"

4.

Become filled to overflowing.

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"Flooding" Quotes from Famous Books

... the powers of the continent will pause with bated breath. Sir, it was said yesterday the last days had come. My heart has felt the last day of our dear country was rapidly approaching. Before we have reached victory we have reached bankruptcy. We are to-day flooding the country with an irredeemable currency. In ninety days, with the patriotism of the people paralyzed by the inaction of our great army, the funded debt of the country will depreciate with a rapidity that will startle us. In ninety days more the nations of the world will, I fear, be justified in ...

— A Military Genius - Life of Anna Ella Carroll of Maryland • Sarah Ellen Blackwell

... could do it myself, in the world," pleaded Amy Mathewson, her cheeks again flooding with colour at the ...

— Mrs. Red Pepper • Grace S. Richmond

... skeptically. "The road from here to the hill is half under water right now; the river's got over the bank above, and is flooding down through the horse pasture. By the time the water got up here the river'd be as wide and deep one side uh yuh as the other. Then where'd ...

— The Lure of the Dim Trails • by (AKA B. M. Sinclair) B. M. Bower

... no pain in the sensation, but a certain straining as of unaccustomed muscles being stretched. He felt uncomfortable, then embarrassed, then—exhilarated. But there were other exquisite sensations too. Happiness, as of flooding ...

— A Prisoner in Fairyland • Algernon Blackwood

... monument to the memory of the German legion. Corning down from the tumulus we made our way past fields of barley and paused to pluck a few cornflowers and poppies, and over all the blue sky like an angel of peace the skylark was still flooding the blue dome with melodies which ...

— See America First • Orville O. Hiestand

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