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Flooding   /flˈədɪŋ/   Listen
Flooding

noun
1.
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.  Synonym: implosion therapy.


Flood

verb
(past & past part. flooded; pres. part. flooding)
1.
Fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid.  Synonyms: deluge, inundate, swamp.  "The images flooded his mind"
2.
Cover with liquid, usually water.  "The broken vein had flooded blood in her eyes"
3.
Supply with an excess of.  Synonyms: glut, oversupply.  "Glut the country with cheap imports from the Orient"
4.
Become filled to overflowing.



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"Flooding" Quotes from Famous Books



... mid-heaven flooding a white world when we reached the lodges. We three were placed under guards, while the warriors feasted their triumph and danced the scalp-dance to drive away the spirits of the dead. To beat of tom-tom and shriek of gourd-rattles, the whole ...
— Heralds of Empire - Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the Northern Fur Trade • Agnes C. Laut
... her, that she must take of and give to him. She knew now that he had been telling her these things ever since they had met, but that she had turned from the knowledge, until, at last, in an unguarded moment, it had reached and overwhelmed her, flooding her soul with passionate joy, yet filling her with a peace and security she had never known, either in the old farmhouse or since the long-ago day when all her brave castles of youth and love had crashed down into the dust. Gone now was unbelief, ...
— Blue Aloes - Stories of South Africa • Cynthia Stockley
... come the blossoms so bright and so gay, Giving sweet odors to welcome the May. Sunshine and music are flooding the air, Beauty ...
— Happy Days for Boys and Girls • Various
... popular literature. He was wondering now whether after all he ought to have let her go. He experienced something of the blank amazement of a child who has burst its toy balloon. His golden globe of satisfaction in an instant had gone. An irrational sense of loss was flooding every other feeling about V.V. If she had loved him truly and altogether could she have left him like this? Neither of them surely had intended so complete a separation. He wanted to go back and recall ...
— The Secret Places of the Heart • H. G. Wells
... when exchange originating from this source is much more plentiful than at others. During the last quarter of each year, for instance, when the cereal and cotton crop exports are at their height, exchange comes flooding into the New York market from all over the country, literally by the hundreds of millions of dollars. The natural effect is to depress rates—sometimes to a point where it becomes possible to use the cheaply obtainable exchange to buy gold ...
— Elements of Foreign Exchange - A Foreign Exchange Primer • Franklin Escher


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