flood

• vt. 溢れさせる；満たす；溢れさせる
• vi.溢れ出す；注ぎ込む；水で溢れさせる
• n. 洪水；氾濫；塊
• n.（洪水）人名；（英）Flood；（スウェーデン語、フィンランド語）Floyd

PIE*pleuの「流れる」が語源で、flow、float、pluvialと同じ。 洪水を指すのに使われる。

flood

flood: [OE] Flood goes back to a prehistoric Germanic *flōthuz, which also produced German flut, Dutch vloed, and Swedish flod ‘flood’. It was derived ultimately from Indo- European *plō-, a variant of *pleu- ‘flow, float’ which also produced English fleet, float, fly, fledge, and fowl.
=> fleet, float, fly, fowl

flood (n.)

Old English flōd "a flowing of water, tide, an overflowing of land by water, a deluge, Noah's Flood; mass of water, river, sea, wave," from Proto-Germanic *floduz "flowing water, deluge" (cognates: Old Frisian flod, Old Norse floe, Middle Dutch vloet, Dutch vloed, German Flut, Gothic flodus), from the source of Old English flowan, from PIE verbal root *pleu- "to flow, float, swim" (see pluvial). In early modern English often floud. Figurative use, "a great quantity, a sudden abundance," by mid-14c.

flood (v.)

1660s, "to overflow" (transitive), from flood (n.). Intransitive sense "to rise in a flood" is from 1755. Related: Flooded; flooding.

1. Infectious diseases are spreading among many of the flood victims.

伝染病は洪水に見舞われた多くの被災者に広がっている。

2.The flood of cars has now slowed to a trickle.

荒れ狂う車の流れは今ではまばらになっている。

3.The sight of him entering a room could flood her with desire.

彼が部屋に入るのを見ると、彼女の心の中の欲望が沸き立つ。

4. Flood waters washed away one of the main bridges in Pusan.

洪水は釜山の主要な橋を押しつぶした。

5.He received a flood of letters from irate constituents.

彼は怒った選挙区の住民から洪水のように押し寄せてきた手紙を受け取った。