flooded

adjective

flood·​ed ˈflə-dəd 

1

: covered or overfilled with an excess of water or some other liquid

a flooded field

a flooded carburetor/engine

2

: filled, covered, or completely overrun as if by a flood

won't find new customers in a flooded market

Examples of flooded in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Trucks travel through a flooded road while exiting from an Amazon delivery station in Carlstadt, New Jersey, U.S., on Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2020. —Annie Palmer, CNBC, 30 Apr. 2025

Flood warnings blanketed parts of northwestern Texas and southern Oklahoma on April 26, where more than 2 million people were warned to be ready to move to higher ground and avoid driving through flooded roadways, according to the National Weather Service. —Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 26 Apr. 2025

Despite this, a truck attempts to drive down the flooded street. —Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Apr. 2025

And cities have access to FEMA’s secret database of flooded properties. —Alex Harris, Miami Herald, 24 Apr. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1750, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Rhymes for flooded

• blooded
• budded
• studded
• thudded