Flood and River

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

Usage example: a flood of messages on my computer

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River is a synonym for flood. In some cases you can use "River" instead a noun "Flood".

Nearby Words: flooded, flooding

River noun - A large natural stream of water (larger than a creek).

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Flood is a synonym for river in stream topic. You can use "Flood" instead a noun "River", if it concerns topics such as flow.

Nearby Words: rive, riverside, riverine

certain	certain flood	certain river
current	current flood	current river
actual	actual flood	actual river
entire	entire flood	entire river
Other adjectives: real, massive, large, enormous, huge, major, underground, legendary, literal, rising, local.

In Batman: Arkham Asylum, Scarecrow threatens to flood the Gotham river with his toxins and Joker pollutes the water flow to flood it with Titan.

Source: Water Source Tampering
Water Source Tampering: Scarecrow threatens to flood the Gotham river with his toxins and Joker pollutes the water flow to flood it with Titan.

Source: Video Game / Batman: Arkham Asylum
The prevalence of flood myths is beginning to be considered to be the result of most early human settlements being situated on or very close to a large river for fresh water, and large rivers tend to flood every ten to twenty years or so, occasionally catastrophically.

Source: The Great Flood

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