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outpouring, torrent, tide, tidal wave, stream, rush, flow, glut,
surfeit, satiety, profusion, over-abundance, superabundance,
nimiety, plethora, excess, surplus, superfluity: A flood of
invective poured from her lips.
--v. 4 inundate, submerge, overflow, swamp, immerse, deluge,
pour over, drown: The water flooded everything in the basement.
5 overwhelm, glut, oversupply, saturate, choke: The market is
being flooded with cheap imitations. 6 sweep, flow, swarm,
surge, rush, crowd, pour: As soon as the doors opened, the
people flooded in. 7 permeate, fill, engulf, cover, pour into
or throughout or over: I open the curtain and sunlight floods
the room.
floor n. 1 flooring, parquet, boarding, planking, Nautical or colloq
deck: The floor is mopped once a week. 2 storey, level; deck:
On which floor is your flat? 3 minimum, bottom, base, lower
limit, lowest (level): Owing to inflation, the wage floor was
raised. Share prices went through the floor in today's trading.
--v. 4 knock over or down, bowl over, prostrate, fell,
overthrow, bring down, (make) fall; beat, defeat, conquer,
destroy, rout, overwhelm, crush, whip, trounce, thrash, drub,
best, worst: The champion was floored by a blow to the head. 5
stump, bewilder, baffle, dumbfound or dumfound, confuse,
confound, disconcert, nonplus, perplex, puzzle, astound,
astonish, amaze, surprise, shock: Alexandra was floored when
she received a gift from her ex-husband.
flop v. 1 collapse, drop (down), fall (down), tumble, topple, plump
down, plop down, flounce down: I was so exhausted that I
flopped into bed at once. 2 flap, wave, swing: The door,
unfastened, flopped back and forth in the wind. 3 fail, fall
flat, come to naught or nothing, founder, Colloq fold, US bomb:
The musical flopped on the first night.
--n. 4 failure, fiasco, disaster, non-starter, d‚bƒcle, US
fizzle, Colloq dud, washout, clanger, US lead balloon, bomb;
Slang lemon, Brit cock-up, damp squib: His idea for a new
corkscrew was a complete flop.
flounce n. 1 frill, furbelow, peplum, ruffle, ornament, valance,
trimming: The dress has decorative flounces round the skirt.