Flood and Lake

Flood

Flood noun - A great flow of water or of something that overwhelms.

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Lake and flood are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Lake" instead a noun "Flood".

Nearby Words: flooded, flooding

Lake noun - A body of (usually fresh) water surrounded by land.

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Flood and lake are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Flood" instead a noun "Lake".

Nearby Words: lakeside, lakelet, Laker

complete	complete flood	complete lake
certain	certain flood	certain lake
actual	actual flood	actual lake
entire	entire flood	entire lake
Other adjectives: real, massive, large, big, enormous, huge, living, new, underground, gigantic, different, literal, local.

In one Groo the Wanderer comic, Captain Ajax manages to keep Groo (the walking disaster area) from sinking his ship multiple times...at least until Groo accidentally releases the flood gates of the artificial lake the ship was on, sinking the lake instead!

Source: Saharan Shipwreck
Antz: Z tries to stop the foreman from finishing a tunnel that leads to a lake, which will flood the entire colony by asking him this.

Source: "Jump Off a Bridge" Rebuttal
Secondly, a minor flood could have mixed up the fossils, or it slumped over dead in a lake or river.

Source: Artistic License Paleontology / Real Life

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