flooding

verbo

1. 1

   Também uma forma de floodpresent participle and gerund of flood

substantivo

1. 1

   An act of flooding; a flood or gush.

   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!

   [...] at Cowley Bridge Junction, east of Exeter, both lines were impassable from about 1.30 p.m.—the first flooding of the junction for 36 years—and by the evening the water had risen two-thirds of the way up the platforms at St. Davids as Exeter faced its worst flooding for 60 years.

2. 2

   figuradoEmotional overwhelm sometimes leading to a primal state of rage or panic.

3. 3

   A form of therapy that treats a phobia by suddenly exposing the patient to the object of the phobia, instead of approaching it gradually.

Formas

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floodings