Difference between flood and fled

[Egorka]

Test No. errors/inter-2 "Between the lines", question 4

They knew that the enemy had far superior armements than they did and flood.

(a) knew
(b) superior
(c) than
(d) flood

Test No. errors/inter-2 "Between the lines", answer 4

They knew that the enemy had far superior armements than they did and fled.

Correct entry: fled
The error was: (d) flood
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what's flood? Difference between flood and fled

Egorka

[Torsten]

Flood can be a noun meaning great stream of water or overflow.
Flood also can be verb which means to overflow and its simple past form is fled and that's exactly what's needed in this sentence.
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[rich7]

I thought the correct answer was fled because it is the past tense of flee which means run away quickly. Was I mistaken?
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I should have been born in the USA.
I've got this thing about America.

[rich7]

I also checked my dictionary and found this:

FLOOD:

. transitive and intransitive verb cover area with water: to cover a previously dry area with large amounts of water, or to be covered with large amounts of water.

verb (past flood·ed, past participle flood·ed, present participle flood·ing, 3rd person present singular floods)
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I should have been born in the USA.
I've got this thing about America.

[Torsten]

Well,

Yes the correct answer is fled and it's the simple past form of the verb to flee (to escape/to run away).
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[lost_soul]

Also I found a misspelling here - you wrote "armements", but souldnt it be "armament"
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Alex

"Noone has ever escaped from Stalag 13"
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[Yankee]

You're right, LS.
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Amy
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ESL teacher, translator, and a native speaker of American English