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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.

2 synonyms · Tier 3, Ridgeline · 2 senses · noun and verb · 1 reason line · a wrong tile in 4 puzzles

The 2 synonyms for flood

  • torrentnoun, in the sense "an overwhelming number or amount"
  • glutverb, in the sense "supply with an excess of"

All two are filed under flood's own senses, one synonym per sense, each read by a human before it shipped.

Sense 1 of 2nounTier 3, RidgelineQuantity

an overwhelming number or amount

A flood of requests.

The context the game gives you. The gloss above is for readers here, not for players there.

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
Sense 2 of 2verbTier 4, High CampGiving and transferring

supply with an excess of

Flood the market with tennis shoes.

One sentence, one sense. Without it the word could be read three other ways.

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 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.

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