flooding lietuviškai

Paaiškinimas anglų kalba

• sinking until covered completely with water
• the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land "plains fertilized by annual inundations"
• a technique used in behavior therapy; client is flooded with experiences of a particular kind until becoming either averse to them or numbed to them
• overfull with water "swollen rivers and creeks"
• A method for extinguishing anxiety by a saturation exposure to the feared stimulus situation or its substitute.
• a heavy rain
• fill or cover completely, usually with water
• cover with liquid, usually water "The swollen river flooded the village" "The broken vein had flooded blood in her eyes"
• become filled to overflowing "Our basement flooded during the heavy rains"
• fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid "the basement was inundated after the storm" "The images flooded his mind"