flood vs sight

flood and sight both are nouns.

flood and sight both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
flood	Yes	No	Yes	No
sight	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, sight is a hypernym of flood; that is, sight is a word with a broader meaning than flood:

flood: an overwhelming number or amount
sight: (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent

Other hypernyms of flood include batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad.

flood (noun)	sight (noun)
the act of flooding; filling to overflowing	the act of looking or seeing or observing
a large flow	the ability to see; the visual faculty
light that is a source of artificial illumination having a broad beam; used in photography	an instance of visual perception
the occurrence of incoming water (between a low tide and the following high tide)	the range of vision
the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land	a range of mental vision
an overwhelming number or amount	a place of interest, especially to visitors
	anything that is seen
	(often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent

flood (verb)	sight (verb)
cover with liquid, usually water	catch sight of; to perceive with the eyes
become filled to overflowing	take aim by looking through the sights of a gun (or other device)
fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid
supply with an excess of

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