English to Hindi Dictionary

Hindi meaning of flood

flood

/noun/ बाढ़; प्रलय; नदी; सैलाब; बहुतायत; ज्वार; विप्लाव; अजस्र जल-प्रवाह;
/verb/बाढ़ ला देना; जल से पूरित करना; सैलाब आना; बह निकलना; डुबाना;

Synonym flooding; holocaust; river; inundation; plethora; tide; overflow; extravasate; Immerse;

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English Dictionary:

1. 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.
- The flowing in of the tide; the semidiurnal swell or rise of water in the ocean; -- opposed to ebb; as, young flood; high flood.
- 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.
- Menstrual disharge; menses.

2. Flood

[v. t.]

- To overflow; to inundate; to deluge; as, the swollen river flooded the valley.
- 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.