flooding Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun 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
    implosion therapy.
  2. verb fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid
    flood; inundate; deluge; swamp.
    • the basement was inundated after the storm
    • The images flooded his mind
  3. verb cover with liquid, usually water
    flood.
    • The swollen river flooded the village
    • The broken vein had flooded blood in her eyes
  4. verb supply with an excess of
    flood; glut; oversupply.
    • flood the market with tennis shoes
    • Glut the country with cheap imports from the Orient
  5. verb become filled to overflowing
    flood.
    • Our basement flooded during the heavy rains

WordNet

Flood"ing noun
Definitions
  1. The filling or covering with water or other fluid; overflow; inundation; the filling anything to excess.
  2. (Med.) An abnormal or excessive discharge of blood from the uterus. Dunglison.

Webster 1913