ADJ
- devastating, great, heavy, severe
- summer, winter
VERB + FLOOD
- cause
- Heavy rainfall in the mountains caused the floods
FLOOD + VERB
- hit sth, strike sth
- This summer the region was struck by devastating floods
- inundate sth
- The meadowland was inundated by heavy floods
- cause sth
- The flood caused widespread destruction
- subside
- The floods are slowly subsiding
FLOOD + NOUN
- water/waters
- alert, damage, victim
- control, defence, prevention, protection, relief
PHRASES
- be in (full) flood
- The river was in full flood (= had flooded its banks)
FLOOD + VERB
- inundate sb/sth
- She was inundated by floods of fan mail
PREP
- ~ of
- a great flood of refugees
PHRASES
- in floods of tears (= crying a lot)
- The little girl was in floods of tears
