FLOODED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does flooded mean? 

• FLOODED (adjective)
  The adjective FLOODED has 1 sense:

1. covered with water

  Familiarity information: FLOODED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FLOODED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Covered with water

Synonyms:

afloat; awash; flooded; inundated; overflowing

Context example:

an overflowing tub

Similar:

full (containing as much or as many as is possible or normal)

 Context examples 

Weedon Scott pressed a button, and the staircase and downstairs hall were flooded with light.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Cells were flooded with excess iron, which overwhelmed iron storage proteins and killed the bacteria.

(New answer to MRSA, other 'superbug' infections: clay minerals?, NSF)

She had fallen back on her pillow asleep; she did not even wake when I had pulled up the blind and let in the sunlight which flooded the room.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

NASA's Cassini spacecraft has found deep, steep-sided canyons on Saturn's moon Titan that are flooded with liquid hydrocarbons.

(Cassini Finds Flooded Canyons on Titan, NASA)

The dark circle became a dot on the moon-flooded snow as Spitz disappeared from view.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Although some of the genes involved in that adaptation exist in the other plants, they do not switch on when the roots are being flooded.

(Grains in the rain, National Science Foundation)

It banished sordid fact, flooded his mind with beauty, loosed romance and to its heels added wings.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

And then, that night, it rained, and she was flooded out and driven back into the boat.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Farmers just below the aqueduct practice wet rice cultivation, in which fields are flooded at one point in the growing cycle.

(NASA Map Reveals a New Landslide Risk Factor, NASA)

In regional perfusion, a specific area of the body (usually an arm or a leg) is targeted and high doses of anticancer drugs are flooded through the artery to reach the surrounding tissue and kill as many cancer cells as possible.

(Chemotherapeutic Perfusion, NCI Thesaurus)