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flashflood

flashflood is the alternative spelling of flash flood.

Meaning of flash flood

Noun

flash flood (plural flash floods)

  1. A sudden, rapid flood, usually of short duration and local impact.
    • The West Highland Line reopened for passengers on July 11, following emergency repair works after more than 1,600 tons of material was washed away by a flash flood on June 25.2020 August 12, Philip Haigh, “Short-term access planning is not in passengers' interest”, in Rail, page 55, photo caption

Forms of flashflood

pluralflashfloods

Questions about flashflood

What is flashflood the alternative spelling of?
Flashflood is the alternative spelling of flash flood.

Words near flashflood in the dictionary

  1. flashest
  2. flashfic
  3. flashfics
  4. flashfire
  5. flashfires
  6. flashflood
  7. flashfloods
  8. flashforward
  9. flashforwarded
  10. flashforwarding
  11. flashforwards

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Adapted from Wiktionary: flashflood (page history and authors); flash flood (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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