Crossword-Solution: FLOOD 5 letters, 161 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

Dictionary

Word	Word Type	Definition
Flood	v. i.	A great flow of water; a body of moving water; the flowing stream, as of a river; especially, a body of water, rising, swelling, and overflowing land not usually thus covered; a deluge; a freshet; an inundation.
Flood	v. i.	The flowing in of the tide; the semidiurnal swell or rise of water in the ocean; -- opposed to ebb; as, young flood; high flood.
Flood	v. i.	A great flow or stream of any fluid substance; as, a flood of light; a flood of lava; hence, a great quantity widely diffused; an overflowing; a superabundance; as, a flood of bank notes; a flood of paper currency.
Flood	v. i.	Menstrual disharge; menses.
Flood	v. t.	To overflow; to inundate; to deluge; as, the swollen river flooded the valley.
Flood	v. t.	To cause or permit to be inundated; to fill or cover with water or other fluid; as, to flood arable land for irrigation; to fill to excess or to its full capacity; as, to flood a country with a depreciated currency.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
FLOOD	anagram	OFOLD

We have 161 clues for the answer “FLOOD”

Clue	Answers
"Noah" event	1 answer
Bank breacher	1 answer
Biblical depopulator	1 answer
Breaking-the-bank event?	1 answer
California's recent woe.	1 answer
Cataclysm in the lore of many world cultures	1 answer
Dam buster	1 answer
Event lasting 40 days and nights in the Bible	1 answer
FILL river to overflowing	1 answer
FLOWING in of tide	1 answer
FLOWING river (poet.)	1 answer
FLOWING stream (poet.)	1 answer
FLOWING water (poet.)	1 answer
Fill with water	1 answer
Genesis cataclysm	1 answer
Give an engine too much gas	1 answer
Hurricane consequence	1 answer
IRRUPTION of water over land	1 answer
Johnstown disaster	1 answer
Johnstown, for one	1 answer
LOWER gate of lock	1 answer
Monsoon aftermath	1 answer
Monsoon result, often	1 answer
Noah conquered it	1 answer
Noah's challenge	1 answer
Noah's natural disaster	1 answer
Noah's problem	1 answer
Noah's worry	1 answer
Overflowing of water	1 answer
Overwhelm in abundance	1 answer
Deluge or heavy overflow	1 answer
Reason for Noah's ark	1 answer
Red River problem of 1996	1 answer
Result of a bank failure?	1 answer
Result of a burst dike	1 answer
Result of a monsoon	1 answer
Result of excessive rainfall	1 answer
Result of failing banks?	1 answer
Rise over the banks	1 answer
River too big for its breaches	1 answer
Run on the banks?	1 answer
Sight for Noah	1 answer
Spring peril	1 answer
Stall the engine	1 answer
Stream widener	1 answer
Subject of Genesis 7-8	1 answer
Subject of a certain weather alert	1 answer
There was a great one in Genesis	1 answer
Tide opposed to ebb	1 answer
What Noah built the Ark for	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or a triangle.

Hint 2 anagram

EARA

Hint 3 another clue

CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE

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Sentences with FLOOD (5)

Him followed his next Mate, Both glorying to have scap’t the _Stygian_ flood As Gods, and by their own recover’d strength, Not by the sufferance of supernal Power.

Paradise Lost John Milton 1991

She became more or less red in the cheek, the blood wavering in uncertain flux and reflux over the sensitive space between ebb and flood.

Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992

Most grave and reverend senators of Thebes, What Deeds ye soon must hear, what sights behold How will ye mourn, if, true-born patriots, Ye reverence still the race of Labdacus! Not Ister nor all Phasis’ flood, I ween, Could wash away the blood-stains from this house, The ills it shrouds or soon will bring to light, Ills wrought of malice, not unwittingly.

The Oedipus Trilogy Sophocles 2000

Such occasions might remind the elderly citizen of that period, before the last war with England, when Salem was a port by itself; not scorned, as she is now, by her own merchants and ship-owners, who permit her wharves to crumble to ruin while their ventures go to swell, needlessly and imperceptibly, the mighty flood of commerce at New York or Boston.

The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1992

Through it all ran a refrain: “Way! Way! The Martians are coming!” Few stopped and came aside from that flood.

The War of the Worlds H. G. Wells 1992

Quotes with FLOOD (3)

In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood like a hundred golden urns pouring out of the sun.

Madeline Miller The Song of Achilles

I have loved in life and I have been loved. I have drunk the bowl of poison from the hands of love as nectar, and have been raised above life's joy and sorrow. My heart, aflame in love, set afire every heart that came in touch with it. My heart has been rent and joined again; My heart has been broken and again made whole; My heart has been wounded and healed again; A thousand deaths my heart has died, and thanks be to love, it lives yet. I went through hell and saw there love…

Hazrat Inayat Khan The Dance of the Soul

There's a race of men that don't fit in, A race that can't sit still; So they break the hearts of kith and kin, And they roam the world at will. They range the field and rove the flood, And they climb the mountain's crest; Their's is the curse of the gypsy blood, And they don't know how to rest.

Robert W. Service

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 95 times in crossword archives (1950–2025).