flooding

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of flood

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)An act of flooding; a flood or gush.

   “And by the same token it was plain that there had also been a hundred and seventy-five floodings of the earth and depositings of limestone strata!”

   “[...] at Cowley Bridge Junction, east of Exeter, both lines were impassable from about 1.30 p.m.—the first flooding of the junction for 36 years—and by the evening the water had risen two-thirds of the way up the platforms at St. Davids as Exeter faced its worst flooding for 60 years.”

2. (countable, figuratively, uncountable)Emotional overwhelm sometimes leading to a primal state of rage or panic.
3. (countable, uncountable)A form of therapy that treats a phobia by suddenly exposing the patient to the object of the phobia, instead of approaching it gradually.