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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. 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
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