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Definition of Deluge
1. Noun. An overwhelming number or amount. "A torrent of abuse"
Generic synonyms: Batch, Deal, Flock, Good Deal, Great Deal, Hatful, Heap, Lot, Mass, Mess, Mickle, Mint, Mountain, Muckle, Passel, Peck, Pile, Plenty, Pot, Quite A Little, Raft, Sight, Slew, Spate, Stack, Tidy Sum, Wad
Derivative terms: Flood, Inundate, Torrential
2. Verb. Fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid. "The images flooded his mind"
Generic synonyms: Fill, Fill Up, Make Full
Derivative terms: Flood, Flood, Flooding, Inundation, Inundation
Also: Flood In
3. Noun. A heavy rain.
Generic synonyms: Rain, Rainfall
Derivative terms: Pelt, Soak, Torrential
4. Verb. Charge someone with too many tasks.
5. Noun. The rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land. "Plains fertilized by annual inundations"
Generic synonyms: Geological Phenomenon
Specialized synonyms: Debacle, Flash Flood, Flashflood, Noachian Deluge, Noah And The Flood, Noah's Flood, The Flood
Derivative terms: Flood, Flood, Flood, Inundate, Inundate
6. Verb. Fill or cover completely, usually with water. "The swollen rivers deluge the area with water"
Generic synonyms: Flood
Derivative terms: Inundation, Submergence, Submergible, Submerging, Submersible
Definition of Deluge
1. n. 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. v. t. To overflow with water; to inundate; to overwhelm.
Definition of Deluge
1. Proper noun. (Bible) The Biblical flood during the time of Noah. ¹
2. Noun. A great flood or rain. ¹
3. Noun. An overwhelming amount of something. ¹
4. Verb. (transitive) To flood with water. ¹
5. Verb. (transitive) To overwhelm. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Deluge
1. to flood [v -UGED, -UGING, -UGES] - See also: flood
Medical Definition of Deluge
1. 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 . 2. Anything which overwhelms, or causes great destruction. "The deluge of summer." "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. (Apres moi le deluge)" (Madame de Pompadour) Origin: F. Deluge, L. Diluvium, fr. Diluere wash away; di- = dis- + luere, equiv. To lavare to wash. See Lave, and cf. Diluvium. 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 fl . . . Shall deluge all." (Pope) Origin: Deluged; Deluging. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Deluge
Literary usage of Deluge
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by Oxford Historical Society (1885)
"Of other cities built before the deluge, Moses is silent ; but the famous ...
writes that before Noah's deluge there were eight noble cities erected as ..."
2. The Mythology of All Races by John Arnott MacCulloch, Louis Herbert Gray, George Foot Moore, Alice Werner (1916)
"CHAPTER I MYTHS OF ORIGINS AND THE deluge AMONG all the peoples of Indonesia,
... All of these tribes, as will be seen later, possess deluge-myths, ..."
3. The Testimony of the Rocks: Or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two by Hugh Miller (1871)
"THE NOACHIAN deluge. A CENTURY has not yet gone by since all the organic remains on
... is now founded were regarded as the wrecks of a universal deluge, ..."
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