flooding

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of flood

plural floodings

1. countableuncountableAn act of flooding; a flood or gush.

   The storms resulted in flooding over a large area.

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   And by the same token it was plain that there had also been a hundred and seventy-five floodings of the earth and depositings of limestone strata!

   1875, Mark Twain, Some Learned Fables for Good Old Boys and Girls

   [...] at Cowley Bridge Junction, east of Exeter, both lines were impassable from about 1.30 p.m.—the first flooding of the junction for 36 years—and by the evening the water had risen two-thirds of the way up the platforms at St. Davids as Exeter faced its worst flooding for 60 years.

   1960 December, “Talking of Trains: The railway and the Devon floods”, in Trains Illustrated, page 709

2. countablefigurativelyuncountablehuman sciencesEmotional overwhelm sometimes leading to a primal state of rage or panic.
3. countableuncountablehuman sciencesA form of therapy that treats a phobia by suddenly exposing the patient to the object of the phobia, instead of approaching it gradually.