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FLOOD OUT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does flood out mean? 

FLOOD OUT (verb)
  The verb FLOOD OUT has 1 sense:

1. charge someone with too many tasksplay

  Familiarity information: FLOOD OUT used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


FLOOD OUT (verb)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Charge someone with too many tasks

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

deluge; flood out; overwhelm

Hypernyms (to "flood out" is one way to...):

burden; charge; saddle (impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody with something


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