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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

The break left a giant sinkhole on Sunset Boulevard and sent about 17 million gallons of water into surrounding neighborhoods, shuttering businesses, and flooding homes and underground parking.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026

An increase of that scale would put one quarter of Australian residential properties at risk of flooding.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 23, 2026

This is only the second named storm of the season, after Tropical Storm Arthur brought some flooding to the US last month.

From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026

Extreme weather in the days before the final including ferocious storms, plus flooding and smoke from Canadian forest fires distracted many in the Big Apple.

From Barron's ● Jul. 19, 2026

But my neighborhood is not flooding or splitting in half.

From "Pride" by Ibi Zoboi

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

The West Branch of the mighty Susquehanna, which has plagued generations of residents with its spring floodings, was the primary means of ingress and egress for the area.

From The Fair Play Settlers of the West Branch Valley, 1769-1784 A Study of Frontier Ethnography by Wolf, George D.

And by the same token it was plain that there had also been a hundred and seventy-five floodings of the earth and depositings of limestone strata!

From Sketches New and Old, Part 3. by Twain, Mark

Related Words

• inundation