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Synonyms for flood
Synonyms for flood: torrent and glut. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 2 synonyms for flood
All two are filed under flood's own senses, one synonym per sense, each read by a human before it shipped.
an overwhelming number or amount
A flood of requests.
The true synonym
torrent
Same sentence, swapped: A torrent of requests.
Close but different
The game offers these three alongside the answer. They are close enough to tempt and wrong enough to be wrong, which is the whole design.
- development
- jam
- jump
supply with an excess of
Flood the market with tennis shoes.
The true synonym
glut
Same sentence, swapped: Glut the market with tennis shoes.
Close but different
The game shows these three beside the answer. Each is a real word with a real meaning and none of them fits the slot flood is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- curtain
- coal
- tide
Where flood turns up in the game
flood is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across two difficulty tiers. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in four other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where flood is the trap
- trickleverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is dribble, in the sense "to flow slowly in a thin stream", and flood is one of the three tiles that lose.
- spillnoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is fall, in the sense "a sudden drop from an upright position", and flood is on the board beside it.
- spillverb, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is shed, in the sense "cause or allow (a solid substance) to flow or run out or over", and flood is on the board beside it.
- downpournoun, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is cloudburst, in the sense "a sudden, very heavy fall of rain", and flood is on the board beside it.
Play flood
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so flood reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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The ring widens as it goes, from quantity at Ridgeline outward to the whole bank.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. flood carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.