What is overflowing? Where is the flood? Call the emergency services.
An overflowing of water onto land that is normally dry
only if the stream is 'overflowing' then you can say that its overflowing if not then don't say its 'overflowing'
These are things you don't expect to happen. That includes things such as automobile collisions, terror attacks, sudden death, school shootings, sudden sickness, medical emergencies, fire, flood, etc.
His sentences were overflowing with adjectives.Overflowing its banks, the river's waters swamped the town.
The correct phrase is "all of a sudden". Bad grammar is often spread because the phrase is misheard, and "all of a sudden" sounds very similar to "all the sudden" or "all of the sudden" when a person says it quickly.
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An overflowing of water onto land that is normally dry
the rain is causing to much flood the seas and lakes are overflowing
A Flood.
A flash flood.
This is called a flood.
A flash flood?
flood
A flood, or a tidal wave.
a flood
A great flow of water; a body of moving water; the flowing stream, as of a river; especially, a body of water, rising, swelling, and overflowing land not usually thus covered; a deluge; a freshet; an inundation., The flowing in of the tide; the semidiurnal swell or rise of water in the ocean; -- opposed to ebb; as, young flood; high flood., A great flow or stream of any fluid substance; as, a flood of light; a flood of lava; hence, a great quantity widely diffused; an overflowing; a superabundance; as, a flood of bank notes; a flood of paper currency., Menstrual disharge; menses., To overflow; to inundate; to deluge; as, the swollen river flooded the valley., To cause or permit to be inundated; to fill or cover with water or other fluid; as, to flood arable land for irrigation; to fill to excess or to its full capacity; as, to flood a country with a depreciated currency.
Flood is land that has been washed away by rising and overflowing bodies of water. Floods usually happen when there is heavy rain fall.