Dictionary Entry

flooding

Part of Speech: verbPronunciation: /ˈflʌdɪŋ/Used In Literature ↓

To overflow, as by water from excessive rainfall.

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Common Phrases

. floodingback floodingflooding came

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Poetry examples for “flooding”

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

Are all my fading vision sees;
Gone, gone are rapture's flooding gushes!
When mushrooms they were fairy bowers,

Where stones will turn to flooding streams,
Where plains will rise like ocean's waves,

I am now thy nurse, I bid thee sleep. 70
Close thine eyes--this flooding moonlight blinds them!--
Nay, all's well again! thou must not weep.

I am now thy nurse, I bid thee sleep.
Close thine eyes--this flooding moonlight blinds them!--
Nay, all's well again! thou must not weep.

I am now thy nurse, I bid thee sleep.
Close thine eyes: this flooding moonlight blinds them.
Nay, all’s well again! thou must not weep.

The painted flame, the frozen smoke.
No more the flooding lamplight broke
On flying eyes and lips and hair;

And I hear the sound of coming full-key'd bugles,
All the channels of the city streets they're flooding,
As with voices and with tears.

As low and wailing, yet clear the notes, rising and falling,
flooding the night,
Sadly sinking and fainting, as warning and warning, and yet again