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• present participle of flood.

flooding

American  

[fluhd-ing] / ˈflʌd ɪŋ /

noun

• floodings
  plural

1. a form of psychotherapy in which the patient receives abrupt and intense, rather than gradual, exposure to a fear-producing situation.

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flooding British  

/ ˈflʌdɪŋ /

noun

1. the submerging of land under water, esp due to heavy rain, a lake or river overflowing, etc

2. pathol excessive bleeding from the uterus, as following childbirth

3. psychol a method of eliminating anxiety in a given situation, by exposing a person to the situation until the anxiety subsides

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• floodings
  plural

Etymology

Origin of flooding

1665–75, for sense “flood”; see flood + -ing ¹

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

flooding floodings

Graham benefited from not just Trump’s endorsement but a significant funding advantage over Norman, as well as from outside groups flooding the airwaves on her behalf.

From Slate ● Aug. 26, 2026

Massive flooding killed eight people in Nepal on Wednesday as Chinese state media reported "major casualties" from a mudslide at a Tibet trade hub on China's side of the nations' shared border.

From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026

Rasuwa saw deadly flooding last year that killed 18 people after a glacier burst on the Chinese side of the border.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

Some places can see flooding downpours while others, perhaps only a few miles away, avoid the heaviest rain and stay essentially dry.

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026

Mac led him around back to the garage and swung open the door, flooding the room with light.

From "Eleven" by Tom Rogers

I suddenly realized: You’ve always bought houses on tops of hills because you’re afraid of water-level rise and that’s because you were raised to think the tribulations will bring mass floodings.

From Slate ● Mar. 6, 2021

The adobe structure survived Rio Grande floodings, fires and a transfer of sovereignty from Mexico to the United States.

From Washington Post ● May 16, 2018

Crystal Bridges disassembled the pavilion-style structure, which had suffered floodings over the years, and rebuilt it on the museum’s campus.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2016

It is similarly of service for piles, and for female floodings, because exerting a special local action on the organs within the middle trunk.

From Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure by William Thomas Fernie

Even in Egypt, however, the recollection of the deluge seems to have survived, though it lay entangled amid what seem to be symbolized memories of unusual floodings of the river Nile.

From The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed by Hugh Miller

Related Words

• inundation