📚 name • entry_id 24870
Flood
Meanings (ES + gloss)
diluvio universal
The flood referred to in the Book of Genesis in the Hebrew Bible.
The result of the Dispensation of Conscience was that “all flesh had corrupted his way on the earth;” that “the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination…
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Meanings (ES + gloss)
avenida • innundación • inundación • riada
An overflow of a large amount of water (usually disastrous) from a lake or other body of water due to excessive rainfall or other input of water.
Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query…
a covenant never to destroy the earth again by flood
diluvio
A large number or quantity of anything appearing more rapidly than can easily be dealt with.
Deregulation of financial markets laid the groundwork for the subprime crisis in the United States, while a badly designed euro contributed to the debt crisis in Greece, and the Sc…
a flood of complaints
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Meanings (ES + gloss)
flodear • fludear • inundar
To overflow, as by water from excessive rainfall.
People flooded into the streets in protest.
The basement flooded with rainwater.
innundar • inundar
To cover or partly fill as if by a flood.
The floor was flooded with beer.
They flooded the room with sewage.
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