"flooding" meaning in English

See flooding in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ˈflʌdɪŋ/ Forms: floodings [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} flooding (countable and uncountable, plural floodings)
  1. An act of flooding; a flood or gush. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (act of flooding): наводняване (navodnjavane) [neuter] (Bulgarian), наводнение (navodnenie) [neuter] (Bulgarian), 洪水 (hóngshuǐ) (Chinese Mandarin), oversvømmelse [common-gender] (Danish), tulviminen (Finnish), tulva (Finnish), inondation [feminine] (French), Überflutung [feminine] (German), Überschwemmung [feminine] (German), inondazione [feminine] (Italian), waipuketanga (Maori), oversvømmelse [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), anegamiento [masculine] (Spanish), inundación [feminine] (Spanish), riada [feminine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-flooding-en-noun-Q0qM~TEJ Disambiguation of 'act of flooding': 100 0 0
  2. (psychology, figurative) Emotional overwhelm sometimes leading to a primal state of rage or panic. Tags: countable, figuratively, uncountable Categories (topical): Psychology Translations (emotional overwhelm): tunnekuohu (Finnish), Überforderung [feminine] (German)
    Sense id: en-flooding-en-noun-g6yQEVsM Topics: human-sciences, psychology, sciences Disambiguation of 'emotional overwhelm': 2 92 5
  3. (psychology) A form of therapy that treats a phobia by suddenly exposing the patient to the object of the phobia, instead of approaching it gradually. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Psychology
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: flash flooding, sunny-day flooding

Verb

IPA: /ˈflʌdɪŋ/
Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} flooding
  1. present participle and gerund of flood Tags: form-of, gerund, participle, present Form of: flood
    Sense id: en-flooding-en-verb-ke6-wqMc

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-11-21 using wiktextract (95d2be1 and 64224ec). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.