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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   An upward flood.

   "My mind had become a tattered cloth which couldn't stop the upflood of images upwelling from underneath: […]"

Verb

1. 1
   To flood upward. intransitive

Example

More examples

"My mind had become a tattered cloth which couldn't stop the upflood of images upwelling from underneath: […]"

Etymology

From up- + flood.

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