flooding
f luh ding
- n 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
- v fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid
- v cover with liquid, usually water
- v supply with an excess of
- v become filled to overflowing
- Even parts of the Pacific coastline that may be shielded from flooding could be at risk for increased erosion.
- Rescuers pulled more bodies from swollen rivers Monday as residents started to dig out their homes from under carpets of mud after flooding left 240 people dead in the Philippine .
- Eighty-eight of Iowa's 99 counties were declared a natural disaster area as a result of last year's flooding and two deadly tornadoes.