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Main Entry: flood
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: overwhelming flow, quantity

Synonyms:

abundance, alluvion, bore, bounty, cataclysm, cataract, current, deluge, downpour, drencher, drift, eager, excess, flow, flux, freshet, glut, inundation, multitude, niagara, outgushing, outpouring, overflow, plenty, pour, profusion, rush, spate, stream, superabundance, superfluity, surge, surplus, tide, torrent, tsunami, wave
Main Entry: flood
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: inundate or submerge

Synonyms:

brim over, choke, deluge, drown, engulf, fill, flow, glut, gush, immerse, overflow, oversupply, overwhelm, pour over, rush, saturate, surge, swamp, swarm, sweep, whelm
Main Entry: avalanche
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: falling large mass; sudden rush of large quantity

Synonyms:

barrage, deluge, flood, inundation, landslide, landslip, snowslide, torrent
Notes: avalanche means literally 'a gulp, something swallowed' from French avaler 'to swallow' and Italian lava 'torrent' and refers to snow, rocks, or other debris coming down a mountainside - whereas a landslide is an entire mountainside coming down
Main Entry: bathe
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: wash with water and, usually, soap

Synonyms:

bath, clean, cleanse, dip, douse, dunk, flood, hose, imbathe, imbue, immerse, moisten, rinse, scour, scrub, shower, soak, soap, sponge, steep, submerge, suffuse, tub, water, wet

Antonyms:

dirty
Main Entry: cascade
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: something falling, especially water

Synonyms:

avalanche, cataract, chute, deluge, downrush, falls, flood, force, fountain, outpouring, precipitation, rapids, shower, spout, torrent, watercourse, waterfall
Main Entry: cascade
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: fall in a rush

Synonyms:

descend, disgorge, flood, gush, heave, overflow, pitch, plunge, pour, spew, spill, spit up, surge, throw up, tumble, vomit
Main Entry: cataclysm
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: disaster

Synonyms:

calamity, cataract, catastrophe, collapse, convulsion, crunch, curtains, debacle, deluge, disturbance, double trouble, flood, flooding, holy mess, inundation, misadventure, ruin, torrent, tragedy, unholy mess, upheaval, waterloo, woe

Antonyms:

boon, good fortune, happiness, miracle, wonder
Main Entry: crowd
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: large assembly

Synonyms:

army, array, blowout, bunch, cattle, circle, clique, cloud, cluster, company, concourse, confluence, conflux, congeries, congregation, coterie, crew, crush, deluge, drove, faction, flock, flood, gaggle, great unwashed, group, herd, horde, host, jam, legion, lot, mass, masses, meet, mob, multitude, muster, organization, pack, party, people, posse, press, rabble, rank and file, scores, sellout, set, stream, surge, swarm, throng, troupe, tumult
Main Entry: current
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: flow of something, usually water

Synonyms:

course, draught, drift, ebb and flow, flood, flux, jet, juice, progression, river, run, rush, spate, stream, tidal motion, tide
Main Entry: deluge
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: inundate with water

Synonyms:

douse, drench, drown, engulf, flood, flush, gush, overflow, overrun, overwhelm, pour, sluice, soak, sop, souse, stream, submerge, swamp, wet, whelm
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