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Meanings of flood out in inglés

Charge someone with too many tasks.

Usage of flood out in inglés
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When the water table's high, the walks still flood out, of course.
Karen Memory
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And what went down through its floor will flood out into Avendoom.
Shadow prowler
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She throws out her hands, words flood out of her.
Wolf hall
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When it fell, the hot money would flood out again.
The Guardian
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A rich and mellow light, singularly clear, seemed to flood out of some unknown source.
The Call of the Canyon
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Finished goods, particularly linen textiles and cotton products, began to flood out, despite the excise tax.
How the scots invented the modern world: the true story of how w...
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WITH the virtual collapse of the construction industry, machinery continues to flood out of the country.
The Irish Times
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I started to buy rum every day to flood out my emotions and I'm not a drinker.
The Guardian
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Also, a sick curious depravity began to flood out of the squalor of the recesses to his mind.
Corpus of a Siam Mosquito
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Let this small flood out and when the greater one comes there'll be less danger of a disaster.
Ruth Fielding of the Red Mill; Or, Jasper Parloe's Secret
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We could flood out the
IT
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She left me to flood out her spirits on a friend who was rising to go; whereupon I recollected myself.
The Young Seigneur / Or, Nation-Making
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His boots echoed across the hard floor, causing rats to flood out of the bin bags and into the shadows.
Something in the water
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And after every such catastrophe the wave of human life rolls up and now millions flood out upon that precarious territory.
The Human Drift
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Watch those Oireachtas envelopes flood out the door in the next few weeks, one insider says, advising his colleagues to do precisely that.
The Irish Times
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In the days of Yu the Great there were nine years of flood out of ten; but this did not add to its contents.
The Crest-Wave of Evolution / A Course of Lectures in History, G...
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