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Deluge
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What's The Definition Of Deluge?
[n] the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land; "plains fertilized by annual inundations"1
[n] a heavy rain [n] an overwhelming number or amount; "a flood of requests"; "a torrent of abuse" [v] fill or cover completely, usually with water [v] charge someone with too many tasks [v] fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid; "the basement was inundated after the storm"; "The images flooded his mind" Synonyms | Synonyms for Deluge: alluvion | cloudburst | downpour | flood | flood | flood | flood out | inundate | inundate | inundation | inundation | overwhelm | pelter | soaker | submerge | swamp | torrent | torrent | waterspout Related Terms | Find terms related to Deluge: abound | affusion | alluvion | alluvium | army | aspergation | aspersion | avalanche | baptism | baptize | bath | bathing | be prodigal with | bedewing | brash | burst of rain | bury | cascade | cataclysm | cataract | cloudburst | cluster | cohue | crowd | crush | dampening | damping | dewing | dip | douse | downfall | downflow | downpour | drench | drencher | drown | drowning | duck | dunk | embarras de richesses | engulf | engulfment | enough | extravagance | extravagancy | float | flock | flood | flood the market | flooding | flow on | flush | flux | fresh | freshet | galaxy | gush | gushing rain | heap | heavy rain | horde | hosing | hosing down | host | humidification | immerge | immerse | immersion | inundate | inundation | irrigation | jam | landslide | laving | lavishness | legion | mass | merge | mob | moistening | money to burn | more than enough | multitude | Niagara | overabundance | overaccumulation | overbounteousness | overbrim | overcome | overcopiousness | overdose | overequip | overflow | overflowing | overfurnish | overlavish | overlavishness | overluxuriance | overmeasure | overmuchness | overnumerousness | overplentifulness | overplenty | overpopulation | overprofusion | overprovender | overprovide | overprovision | overrun | overrunning | oversell | overstock | oversufficiency | oversupply | overwhelm | panoply | plash | plenty | plethora | plunge in water | pour | pour on | pour out | pour over | press | prodigality | rabble | rain | rainburst | rainspout | rainstorm | redundancy | rinsing | river | rout | ruck | run over | scud | sink | slop | slosh | sluice | soak | soaker | soaking rain | sop | souse | sparging | spate | spattering | spill | spill out | spill over | spillage | splashing | splattering | spout | spraying | sprinkling | stream | submerge | submerse | submersion | superabundance | superflux | swamp | swashing | sweep | teem | the Deluge | the Flood | throng | torrent | torrent of rain | washout | waterflood | watering | waterspout | wet | wetting | whelm | whelming See Also | batch | burden | charge | deal | debacle | fill | fill up | flash flood | flashflood | flock | flood | flood in | geological phenomenon | good deal | great deal | hatful | heap | lot | make full | mass | mess | mickle | mint | muckle | peck | pile | plenty | pot | quite a little | raft | rain | rainfall | saddle | sight | slew | spate | stack | tidy sum | wad | whole lot | whole slew Deluge In Webster's Dictionary \Del"uge\, n. [F. d['e]luge, L. diluvium, fr. diluere
wash away; di- = dis- + luere, equiv. to lavare to wash. See
{Lave}, and cf. {Diluvium}.]
1. A washing away; an overflowing of the land by water; an
inundation; a flood; specifically, The Deluge, the great
flood in the days of Noah (--Gen. vii.).
2. Fig.: Anything which overwhelms, or causes great
destruction. ``The deluge of summer.'' --Lowell.
A fiery deluge fed With ever-burning sulphur
unconsumed. --Milton.
As I grub up some quaint old fragment of a [London]
street, or a house, or a shop, or tomb or burial
ground, which has still survived in the deluge. --F.
Harrison.
After me the deluge. (Apr['e]s moi le d['e]luge.)
--Madame de
Pompadour.
\Del"uge\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Deluged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Deluging}.] 1. To overflow with water; to inundate; to overwhelm. The deluged earth would useless grow. --Blackmore. 2. To overwhelm, as with a deluge; to cover; to overspread; to overpower; to submerge; to destroy; as, the northern nations deluged the Roman empire with their armies; the land is deluged with woe. At length corruption, like a general flood . . . Shall deluge all. --Pope. |
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