Flood

FLOOD

-noun

1. a. the inundation of land that is normally dry through the overflowing of a body of water, especially a river

  b. the state of a river that is at an abnormally high level (especially in the phrase in flood )

2. a great outpouring or flow: a flood of words

3. the rising of the tide from low to high water

4. theatre .  short for floodlight

5. archaic . a large body of water, as the sea or a river

-verb

6. (of water) to inundate or submerge (land) or (of land) to be inundated or submerged

7. to fill or be filled to overflowing, as with a flood

8. (intr.) to flow; surge

9. to supply an excessive quantity of petrol to (a carburettor or petrol engine) or (of a carburettor, etc.) to be supplied with such an excess

10. (intr.) to rise to a flood; overflow

11. (intr.)

  a. to bleed profusely from the uterus, as following childbirth

  b. to have an abnormally heavy flow of blood during a menstrual period

Winter brings its load of floods

Brown pachyderm-like waters

Ready to brake bridges and drown a city