flashflood
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flash flood
also flash·flood (flăsh′flŭd′)n.
A sudden flood of great volume, usually caused by heavy rain.
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Noun | 1. | flashflood - a sudden local flood of great volume and short duration flood, inundation, alluvion, deluge - the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land; "plains fertilized by annual inundations" floodhead - a wall of water rushing ahead of the flood; "we were lucky to be safe when the floodheads hit" |
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