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| Main Entry: | flood |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | overwhelming flow, quantity |
| Synonyms: | abundance, bore, bounty, cataclysm, cataract, current, deluge, downpour, drift, eager, excess, flow, flux, glut, inundation, multitude, outpouring, overflow, plenty, pour, profusion, rush, spate, stream, superabundance, superfluity, surge, surplus, tide, torrent, wave, alluvion, drencher, freshet, niagara, outgushing, tsunami |
| Main Entry: | flood |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | inundate or submerge |
| Synonyms: | choke, deluge, drown, engulf, fill, flow, glut, gush, immerse, overflow, overwhelm, rush, saturate, surge, swamp, swarm, sweep, brim over, oversupply, pour over, whelm |
| Main Entry: | avalanche |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | falling large mass; sudden rush of large quantity |
| Synonyms: | barrage, deluge, flood, inundation, landslide, torrent, landslip, snowslide |
| 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, imbue, immerse, moisten, rinse, scour, scrub, shower, soak, soap, sponge, steep, submerge, suffuse, tub, water, wet, imbathe |
| Antonyms: | dirty |
| Main Entry: | cascade |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something falling, especially water |
| Synonyms: | avalanche, cataract, chute, deluge, flood, force, fountain, outpouring, precipitation, rapids, shower, spout, torrent, watercourse, waterfall, downrush, falls |
| Main Entry: | cascade |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | fall in a rush |
| Synonyms: | descend, disgorge, flood, gush, heave, overflow, pitch, plunge, pour, spew, spill, surge, throw up, tumble, vomit, spit up |
| Main Entry: | cataclysm |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disaster |
| Synonyms: | calamity, cataract, catastrophe, collapse, convulsion, crunch*, curtains*, debacle, deluge, disturbance, flood, flooding, inundation, misadventure, ruin, torrent, tragedy, upheaval, waterloo*, woe, double trouble, holy mess, unholy mess |
| Antonyms: | boon, happiness, miracle, wonder, good fortune |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | current |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | flow of something, usually water |
| Synonyms: | course, drift, flood, flux, jet, juice, progression, river, run, rush, spate, stream, tide, draught, ebb and flow, tidal motion |
| Main Entry: | disaster |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | accident, trouble |
| Synonyms: | act of God*, adversity, affliction, bad luck, bad news*, bale, bane, blight, blow, bust, calamity, casualty, cataclysm, catastrophe, collapse, collision, crash, debacle, defeat, depression, emergency, exigency, failure, fall, fiasco, flood, flop, grief, harm, hazard, holocaust, hot water, misadventure, mischance, misfortune, mishap, reverse, rock, rough, ruin, setback, slip, stroke, tragedy, undoing, upset, washout*, woe, fell stroke, hard luck, ill luck, ruination, the worst |
| Antonyms: | blessing, good luck, miracle, prosperity, success, triumph, win, wonder, good fortune |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | downfall |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disgrace, ruin |
| Synonyms: | atrophy, bane, breakdown, cloudburst, collapse, comedown, comeuppance, debacle, decadence, degeneracy, deluge, descent, destruction, deterioration, discomfiture, down, drop, failure, fall, flood, overthrow, rack and ruin, storm, undoing, declension, degeneration, devolution, on the rocks, road to ruin, ruination, the skids |
| Antonyms: | accomplishment, ascent, rise, success |
| Main Entry: | downpour |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | tremendous pouring of rain |
| Synonyms: | cloudburst, deluge, flood, inundation, storm, drencher, monsoon, rainstorm, torrential rain |
| Antonyms: | sprinkle |
| Main Entry: | drench |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | wet thoroughly |
| Synonyms: | deluge, dip, douse, drown, duck, dunk, flood, immerse, impregnate, inundate, pour, saturate, seethe, soak, sodden, sop, souse, steep, submerge, teem, imbrue |
| Antonyms: | dry, parch |
| Main Entry: | drown |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | submerge in liquid; submerge and die |
| Synonyms: | asphyxiate, deluge, dip, douse, drench, engulf, flood, go down, go under, immerse, inundate, obliterate, overcome, overflow, overpower, overwhelm, plunge, prostrate, sink, soak, sop, souse, stifle, suffocate, swamp, wipe out, knock over, whelm |
| Antonyms: | float, rescue, save |
| Main Entry: | engulf |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | absorb, overwhelm |
| Synonyms: | bury, consume, deluge, drown, encompass, engross, envelop, flood, imbibe, immerse, inundate, overflow, overrun, overwhelm, plunge, submerge, swamp, swallow up, whelm |
| Main Entry: | flow |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | issue, abundance |
| Synonyms: | breeze, continuance, continuation, continuity, course, current, deluge, discharge, draft, draw, dribble, drift, ebb, effusion, electricity, emanation, flood, flux, gush, juice, movement, outflow, outpouring, plenty, plethora, progress, progression, river, run, sequence, series, spate, spout, spurt, stream, succession, tide, train, wind, leakage, oozing |
| Antonyms: | trickle |
| Main Entry: | flow |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | issue, surge, run out |
| Synonyms: | abound, arise, brim, cascade, circulate, continue, course, deluge, discharge, dribble, ebb, emanate, emerge, emit, exude, flood, glide, gurgle, gush, inundate, jet, leak, move, ooze, overflow, pass, percolate, pour, proceed, progress, regurgitate, result, ripple, roll, rush, slide, sluice, spew, spill, splash, spring, spurt, sputter, squirt, stream, sweep, swell, swirl, teem, trickle, tumble, void, disembogue, exudate, pullulate, smooth along, well forth |
| Antonyms: | trickle |
| Main Entry: | glut |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | choke; oversupply |
| Synonyms: | burden, clog, cloy, cram, deluge, devour, feast, fill, flood, gorge, hog*, inundate, load, overload, overwhelm, pack*, pall, sate, satiate, saturate, stuff, surfeit, wolf*, congest, jade, make a pig of, overfeed, overstock, raven |
| Antonyms: | abstain, diet, fast, moderate, reduce, repress, suppress |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | gush |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | outpouring |
| Synonyms: | burst, cascade, flood, flow, flush, issue, jet, run, rush, spate, spout, spring, spurt, stream, surge |
| Main Entry: | inundate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | drown, overwhelm |
| Synonyms: | deluge, dunk, engulf, flood, glut, immerse, overflow, overrun, snow*, submerge, swamp, pour down on, whelm |
| Antonyms: | underwhelm |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | myriad |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | a lot |
| Synonyms: | army, flood, heap, horde, host, mint, mountain*, multitude, oodles*, swarm, loads, scores, slew, stacks, thousands |
| Antonyms: | little |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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