Cryptic crossword clue
Overcome flood 5

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word DROWN

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What does DROWN mean?

DROWN verb
  1. To die from suffocation while immersed in water or other fluid.
  2. To kill by suffocating in water or another liquid.
  3. To be flooded: to be inundated with or submerged in (literally) water or (figuratively) other things; to be overwhelmed.
  4. To inundate, submerge, overwhelm.
  5. (usually passive) To obscure, particularly amid an overwhelming volume of other items.

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