Flood

Definition

flood /flʌd / v ၁။ (က) ေရလႊမ္းမိုးသည္။ ေရႀကီးသည္။ The cellar floods whenever it rains heavily. (ခ) ျမစ္ေရလွ်ံသည္။ damage caused when the Ganges floods ❍ The river burst its banks and flooded the valley. ၂။ လိွမ့္ဝင္လာသည္။ Refugees continue to flood into neighbouring countries. ❍ Cheap imported goods are flooding the market. ❍ The office was flooded with applications for the job. ၃။ ဖံုးလႊမ္းသည္။ ျပည့္လွ်မ္းသည္။ Sunlight flooded (into) the room. ❍ The room was suddenly flooded with light. ၄။ ျပန္လည္သတိရသည္။ ေအာက္ေမ့သည္။ A great sense of relief flooded over him. ❍ Memories of her childhood came flooding back. ၅။ (ကာဗရက္တာ) ဆီလွ်ံသည္။ n ၁။ ေရႀကီးျခင္း။ ေရလႊမ္းမိုးျခင္း။ The heavy rain has caused floods in many parts of the country. ❍ We can't get across the fields because the river is in flood (ie has flowed over its banks and caused a flood). ❍ We had a flood in our cellar when the pipes burst. ၂။ ~ (of sth) တစ္ေလွႀကီး။ တစ္ၿမံဳတစ္မႀကီး။ တစ္ပံုတစ္ေခါင္းႀကီး။ (ေဒါသ) လိႈင္းထျခင္း။ (အဆဲ)မိုးမႊန္ျခင္း။ a flood of anger / abuse/ complaints ❍ a flood of letters / refugees ❍ The child was in floods of tears (ie was crying a lot). ❏ flooding n [U] ေရႀကီးျခင္း။ Widespread flooding is affecting large areas of the south-west. ❏ flood sb out [ PHRV ] ေရလႊမ္း၍ထြက္ေျပးရသည္။ Several families were flooded out by a burst water main.

Examples

1. Water burst through the dam and flooded local villages.
2. The ground floor of the house was flooded.
3. Ten years ago the valley flooded.
4. [flood in/out/down etc] : Water was flooding in through the back door.
5. [flood into/out of/through] : I opened the curtains and light flooded into the room.
6. Pale sunshine flooded the classroom.
7. [be flooded with something] : Suddenly the house was flooded with moonlight.
8. [flood into/out of/across etc] : Calls have been flooding into our office from worried parents.
9. Refugees are flooding out of the capital.
10. [be flooded with something] : The TV station was flooded with complaints.
11. Relief flooded through him.