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FLOOD OUT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does flood out mean?
• FLOOD OUT (verb)
The verb FLOOD OUT has 1 sense:
1. charge someone with too many tasks
Familiarity information: FLOOD OUT used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Charge someone with too many tasks
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Synonyms:
Hypernyms (to "flood out" is one way to...):
burden; charge; saddle (impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody with something
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