Synonyms of flooding

flooding

verb

present participle of flood

as in engulfing

to cover with a flood

the lowlands were completely flooded

angry calls flooded the radio station

Synonyms & Similar Words

• engulfing
• drowning
• overwhelming
• submerging
• inundating
• swamping
• overflowing
• deluging
• flushing
• overcoming
• gulfing
• flowing
• wetting
• submersing
• pouring
• sluicing
• avalanching
• overrunning
• smothering
• gushing
• streaming
• drenching
• soaking
• spurting
• spouting
• dousing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• draining
• drying
• dehydrating
• parching

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of flooding

As high tide peaked Monday morning, water surged from Newport Harbor onto the streets of the Balboa Peninsula flooding some businesses in the Balboa Fun Zone. — Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2026

That means Treasury will need to keep borrowing — a lot, flooding the market with bonds. — David Goldman, CNN Money, 26 Oct. 2026

Still, some market participants see reason for hope in a market bludgeoned this year over worries about rising prices, tensions in the Middle East and stiff competition from artificial intelligence hyperscalers flooding the market with debt. — Jeff Cox, CNBC, 23 Oct. 2026

Polling suggests a tight race, and millions of dollars have gushed into Kansas, flooding the state's airwaves with anti-Marshall and anti-Hamilton ads. — Riley Callanan, CBS News, 22 Oct. 2026

Jackel cautions against using poison, mothballs, smoke, or flooding to force an animal from its shelter, as these methods can harm the animal as well as pets and other unintended targets. — Louise Parks, Martha Stewart, 22 Oct. 2026

But what if, by flooding the algorithmic queue with low-quality content, there’s no longer much of a difference between the platforms? — Emily Palmer Heller, Vulture, 21 Oct. 2026

In the brain, for example, elevated stress hormones can impair learning and memory by flooding the hippocampus with excitatory chemical signals. — Maia Szalavitz, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026

By holding water on the land, these peatlands not only reduce the risk of flooding downstream, but also buffer the landscape against drought, keeping soils moist and supporting nearby forests through dry spells. — Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2026