FLASH FLOOD

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A sudden local flood of great volume and short duration

Synonyms:

flash flood; flashflood

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Hypernyms ("flash flood" is a kind of...):

alluvion; deluge; flood; inundation (the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "flash flood"):

floodhead (a wall of water rushing ahead of the flood)

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