- present participle of flood.
flooding
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An increase of that scale would put one quarter of Australian residential properties at risk of flooding.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 23, 2026
Bertha was expected to produce 2 to 4 inches of rainfall, with isolated totals around 6 inches, through Thursday, from western Florida into southern Louisiana, making flash flooding possible especially in urban areas.
From Barron's ● Jul. 21, 2026
He added that these rules were designed "to ensure that reservoirs are managed safely and help reduce the risk of flooding to people and property downstream".
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
Meta is flooding the market with AI-enabled, camera-equipped smartglasses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
People have started flooding through the back door.
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
I suddenly realized: You’ve always bought houses on tops of hills because you’re afraid of water-level rise and that’s because you were raised to think the tribulations will bring mass floodings.
From Slate ● Mar. 6, 2021
The adobe structure survived Rio Grande floodings, fires and a transfer of sovereignty from Mexico to the United States.
From Washington Post ● May 16, 2018
Crystal Bridges disassembled the pavilion-style structure, which had suffered floodings over the years, and rebuilt it on the museum’s campus.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2016
Those of a sanguine temperament are more liable to floodings and to head symptoms; but such disorders with them usually readily yield to treatment.
From The Physical Life of Woman: Advice to the Maiden, Wife and Mother by Napheys, George H. (George Henry)
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!
From Sketches New and Old, Part 3. by Twain, Mark
