flooding the zone

Verb

flood the zone (third-person singular simple present floods the zone, present participle flooding the zone, simple past and past participle flooded the zone)

1. (US, idiomatic, usually) To fill a relevant region of the field of play.
   • flood the zone with defense
2. (broadly, idiomatic, usually) To provide or supply a very large quantity (of something).
   • flood the zone with initiatives
   1. (broadly, idiomatic, usually) To inundate something or someone (especially an information space and the people using it), especially with undesirable things (such as disinformation or noise).
      • They're not trying to keep you well informed, nor to balance both sides — they're flooding the zone.
3. (usually) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see flood, the, zone.
   • Mr. Magoon. It would not flood the Zone, but my understanding is that it would flood about 120 square miles.1907, Charles E. Magoon, Hearings Before the Committee on Interoceanic Canals of the United States Senate, In the Matter of the Senate Resolution adopted January 9, 1906, providing for an...