flood vs wad

flood and wad both are nouns.

flood and wad both are verbs.

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

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

flood: an overwhelming number or amount
wad: (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, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum.

flood (noun)	wad (noun)
the act of flooding; filling to overflowing	a wad of something chewable as tobacco
a large flow	(often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
light that is a source of artificial illumination having a broad beam; used in photography	a small mass of soft material
the occurrence of incoming water (between a low tide and the following high tide)
the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land
an overwhelming number or amount

flood (verb)	wad (verb)
cover with liquid, usually water	crowd or pack to capacity
become filled to overflowing	compress into a wad
fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid
supply with an excess of

Difference between flood and wad

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