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FLOOD

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flood I. substantiv

1. şuvoi, torent, puhoi (şi fig.); flux;

ebb and flood flux şi reflux; creştere a apelor;

flood of anger explozie de mânie;

(fig.) at the flood la momentul oportun;

flood of light potop de lumină;

flood of tears o mare de lacrimi;

flood of words potop / grindină de cuvinte;

floods of ink valuri de cerneală;

golden flood mănunchi de raze de soare;

(fig.) to run against the flood a vâsli împotriva curentului;

to throw a flood of light on a arunca lumină asupra (cu gen.).

2. inundaţie; revărsare; ieşire din albie;

(bibl.) the Flood potopul.

3. (înv. poetic) mare; lac; râu; fluviu.

flood II. verb A. tranzitiv

1. a inunda, a îneca; a iriga, a uda.

2. a umfla;

the river is flooded by the rains râul e umflat de ploi.

3. a se năpusti, a se revărsa (potop) în / peste, a potopi (şi fig.);

to flood the carburator a îneca carburatorul.

flood II. verb B. intranzitiv

1. a creşte, a se umfla; a se revărsa.

2. (med.) a suferi de hemoragie uterină.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

My curiosity burst from me in a flood of speech.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

The best that was in him was out in splendid flood.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

"Is there a flood?" he cried.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

The image of a flood source.

(Flood Image, NCI Thesaurus)

Almost spent, as I was, by fatigue and the dreadful suspense I endured for several hours, this sudden certainty of life rushed like a flood of warm joy to my heart, and tears gushed from my eyes.

(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

The last flood had lifted her, and had there been much wind or a strong tide current, as in the southern anchorage, we should never have found her more, or found her stranded beyond help.

(Treasure Island, de Robert Louis Stevenson)

It is now not far off sunset time, and over the snow the light of the sun flow in big yellow flood, so that we throw great long shadow on where the mountain rise so steep.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

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