flood out

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

1. (intransitive) To pour out; to talk volubly.
   • 2009 October 29, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Mr Stink, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:

     Chloe took a deep breath and it all flooded out. What started off as a stream soon became a rushing river of emotion.

2. To expel by flooding.

   The heavy rains flooded the inhabitants out of the town.