Flooding

Definitions

1. An act of flooding; a flood or gush.
   countable, uncountable
2. Emotional overwhelm sometimes leading to a primal state of rage or panic.
   countable, figuratively, uncountable
3. A form of therapy that treats a phobia by suddenly exposing the patient to the object of the phobia, instead of approaching it gradually.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“And by the same token it was plain that there had also been a hundred and seventy-five floodings of the earth and depositings of limestone strata!”

“[...] at Cowley Bridge Junction, east of Exeter, both lines were impassable from about 1.30 p.m.—the first flooding of the junction for 36 years—and by the evening the water had risen two-thirds of the way up the platforms at St. Davids as Exeter faced its worst flooding for 60 years.”

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