Intermediate 📚 Vocabulary · #533 of 1319

flood (n.)

too much water covering land

Examples

  • Floods destroyed homes.

Key rules

  • A flood is a large amount of water covering dry land
  • A flood damaged the homes, flood waters
  • Flood is countable
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