What is the meaning of the word "flood"?

Definitions:

an overwhelming number or amount noun
- a flood of requests
become filled to overflowing verb
- Our basement flooded during the heavy rains
cover with liquid, usually water verb
- The swollen river flooded the village
supply with an excess of verb
- flood the market with tennis shoes
the occurrence of incoming water (between a low tide and the following high tide) noun
- a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune Shakespeare