flood out
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[edit]flood out (third-person singular simple present floods out, present participle flooding out, simple past and past participle flooded out)
- (intransitive) To pour out; to talk volubly.
- 2009 October 29, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Mr Stink, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:
- Chloe took a deep breath and it all flooded out. What started off as a stream soon became a rushing river of emotion.
- To expel by flooding.
- The heavy rains flooded the inhabitants out of the town.
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