flooding
noun
a form of psychotherapy in which the patient receives abrupt and intense, rather than gradual, exposure to a fear-producing situation.
floodings
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pluralof flooding.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
Those of a sanguine temperament are more liable to floodings and to head symptoms; but such disorders with them usually readily yield to treatment.
From The Physical Life of Woman: Advice to the Maiden, Wife and Mother by George H. (George Henry) Napheys
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 Mark Twain
