"beflood" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From be- + flood.",
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      "form": "befloods",
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      "form": "beflooding",
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      "form": "beflooded",
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      "form": "beflooded",
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          "ref": "1783, The gentleman's magazine, and historical chronicle",
          "text": "Why, to suit his hypothesis of pulsion and suction, must, a water-spout be confined to the ocean, like a squirt to the pond, and only upon a rare occasion be raised up or lifted about to splash and beflood the neighbouring shores?",
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          "text": "What waves of tears beflood her face! What dolours rend her aching heart!",
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        {
          "ref": "1962, James Branch Cabell, Padraic Colum, Margaret Freeman Cabell, Between friends: letters of James Branch Cabell and others",
          "text": "Otherwise, I liked the paper immensely, and if you really enjoy reading James I merely marvel without exhortation. But the \"Feminine Nuisance\" is quite a different couple of sandals. ... I beflood it with an approval [...]",
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        "To flood around or about; flood all over; inundate."
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        "(transitive) To flood around or about; flood all over; inundate."
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  "word": "beflood"
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  "etymology_text": "From be- + flood.",
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      "form": "befloods",
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      "form": "beflooded",
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          "ref": "1783, The gentleman's magazine, and historical chronicle",
          "text": "Why, to suit his hypothesis of pulsion and suction, must, a water-spout be confined to the ocean, like a squirt to the pond, and only upon a rare occasion be raised up or lifted about to splash and beflood the neighbouring shores?",
          "type": "quotation"
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        "(transitive) To flood around or about; flood all over; inundate."
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