Beflood

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To flood around or about; flood all over; inundate. transitive

    "Why, to suit his hypothesis of pulsion and suction, must, a water-spout be confined to the ocean, like a squirt to the pond, and only upon a rare occasion be raised up or lifted about to splash and beflood the neighbouring shores?"

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inundate

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"Why, to suit his hypothesis of pulsion and suction, must, a water-spout be confined to the ocean, like a squirt to the pond, and only upon a rare occasion be raised up or lifted about to splash and beflood the neighbouring shores?"

Etymology

From be- + flood.

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