FLOODING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does flooding mean? 

• FLOODING (noun)
  The noun FLOODING has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: FLOODING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FLOODING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

flooding; implosion therapy

Hypernyms ("flooding" is a kind of...):

behavior modification; behavior therapy (psychotherapy that seeks to extinguish or inhibit abnormal or maladaptive behavior by reinforcing desired behavior and extinguishing undesired behavior)

Derivation:

flood (fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid)

 Context examples 

This is the second highest number of disasters experienced in one year, with double the record number of inland flooding events for one year.

(2016 was 2nd warmest year on record for U.S., NOAA)

In addition to the sea level, extreme rainfall events are also among the causes for environmental problems in coastal regions, leading to landslides, torrents, and flooding.

(Brazil's coastal cities more vulnerable to climate change, Agência Brasil)

Coastal salt marshes provide many benefits — supporting diverse wildlife, helping to reduce pollution, and protecting us from flooding.

(Changing salt marsh conditions send resident microbes into dormancy, NSF)

Scientists say if all of Greenland's vast ice sheet were to melt, global sea levels would rise by 7 meters (23 feet) , flooding most coastal developments around the world.

(Study: Greenland's Ice Melting Faster than Previously Thought, VOA)

That's as much as drought or flooding, or any single pest or disease, but ozone is a relatively unstudied component of yield loss, according to the biologists.

(Study finds rising ozone a hidden threat to corn, National Science Foundation)

Weather such as heavy rain, thunderstorms, or hurricanes can cause flooding.

(Floods, Federal Emergency Management Agency)

The process of flooding fluid through the artery to saturate the surrounding tissue.

(Chemotherapeutic Perfusion, NCI Thesaurus)

And he noted that this plant-based phenomenon could have a large influence on flooding in the Mississippi River basin.

(Plant physiology will be major contributor to future river flooding, National Science Foundation)

He could see the wolves flooding into the big living-room of the fort.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

It's the first time a flooding response has been studied in a comprehensive way across different species, the researchers said.

(Grains in the rain, National Science Foundation)