Definition of Flood out

1. Verb. Charge someone with too many tasks.

Exact synonyms: Deluge, Overwhelm
Generic synonyms: Burden, Charge, Saddle
Derivative terms: Deluge

Lexicographical Neighbors of Flood Out

flokati
flokatis
flone
flong
flongs
flood-gate
flood-gates
flood control
flood fever
flood fill
flood fills
flood gate
flood in
flood lamp
flood out (current term)
flood plain
flood plains
flood stage
flood test
flood tide
flood tides
floodable
floodage
flooded
flooded gum
flooder
flooders
floodgate
floodgates

Literary usage of Flood out

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides, William Smith (1753)
"... re-embarking without any regularity or order, with great difficulty, after a confi- derable interval, flood out to receive them. ..."

2. The Practical Register in Chancery: With the Addition of the Modern Cases by John Wyatt (1800)
"... i^Vern-»i though the defendant flood out to the laft ... and had it, and afterwards flood out all the ..."

3. Annual Register (1802)
"Very foon after the royal of the fea without her friendly care. ampton weighed, and flood out of in their barges from the new pier, the bay for the channel. ..."

4. Proceedings of the Good Roads Institute, Held at the University of North by Good Roads Institute, Chapel Hill, N.C., University of North Carolina (1793-1962, University of North Carolina (1793-1962), Chapel Hill Good Roads Institute, N.C (1919)
"This development would flood out the present 8-foot fall at Howards Mill. The primary power at this site would be 1070 24-hour hp or 2570 10-hour hp without ..."

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