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词汇 flood with
释义
Phr V
flood with
floods, flooding, flooded
flood sth with sth
to provide or send something in large numbers or amounts, often more than is necessary
Thousands of the paper's loyal readers flooded its offices yesterday with faxes of support.The international market is flooded with tea and coffee.
phraseflood with1. flood sth with sth to send large numbers of letters, complaints etc to an organization, especially more than the people there can deal with: Campaigners flooded the Governor's office with angry letters of protest.be flooded with calls/complaints/requests etc (=receive a large number of telephone calls etc) The telephone lines were flooded with calls from people wanting to help.2. flood sth with sth to provide such large amounts of something in a place that it causes a problem: A plot to flood Britain with the drug Ecstasy, has been smashed by the police. Plans to recruit more foreign workers could flood the country with cheap labor.flood the market (=make so much of something available that its price drops) Foreign suppliers are accused of flooding the market with cheap CDs. SIMILAR TO: swamp

flood (someone or something) with (something)

1. Literally, to shower or deluge someone or something with water. High tide flooded the sand with water.
2. By extension, to overwhelm someone with something. The familiar smells of my mother's cooking flooded me with memories of my childhood.

flood someone or something with something

to cover or inundate someone or something with something. We flooded them with praise and carried them on our shoulders. The rains flooded the fields with standing water.
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