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Meaning of बाढ़ in English

  • A washing away; an overflowing of the land by water; an inundation; a flood; specifically, The Deluge, the great flood in the days of Noah (Gen. vii.).
  • Fig.: Anything which overwhelms, or causes great destruction.
  • To overflow with water; to inundate; to overwhelm.
  • To overwhelm, as with a deluge; to cover; to overspread; to overpower; to submerge; to destroy; as, the northern nations deluged the Roman empire with their armies; the land is deluged with woe.
  • A great flow of water; a body of moving water; the flowing stream, as of a river; especially, a body of water, rising, swelling, and overflowing land not usually thus covered; a deluge; a freshet; an inundation.
  • The flowing in of the tide; the semidiurnal swell or rise of water in the ocean; -- opposed to ebb; as, young flood; high flood.
  • A great flow or stream of any fluid substance; as, a flood of light; a flood of lava; hence, a great quantity widely diffused; an overflowing; a superabundance; as, a flood of bank notes; a flood of paper currency.
  • Menstrual disharge; menses.
  • To overflow; to inundate; to deluge; as, the swollen river flooded the valley.
  • To cause or permit to be inundated; to fill or cover with water or other fluid; as, to flood arable land for irrigation; to fill to excess or to its full capacity; as, to flood a country with a depreciated currency.
  • of Flood
  • The filling or covering with water or other fluid; overflow; inundation; the filling anything to excess.
  • An abnormal or excessive discharge of blood from the uterus.
  • of Inundate
  • To flow over; to cover woth, or as with, water or other fluid; to spread over; to inundate; to overwhelm.
  • To flow over the brim of; to fill more than full.
  • To run over the bounds.
  • To be superabundant; to abound.
  • A flowing over, as of water or other fluid; an inundation.
  • That which flows over; a superfluous portion; a superabundance.
  • An outlet for the escape of surplus liquid.

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