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Found 3 items, similar to deluge.
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: deluge
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English → English (WordNet)
Definition: deluge
deluge
n 1: an overwhelming number or amount;
“a flood of requests”;
“a
torrent of abuse” [syn:
flood,
inundation,
torrent]
2: a heavy rain [syn:
downpour,
cloudburst,
waterspout,
torrent,
pelter,
soaker]
3: the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto
normally dry land;
“plains fertilized by annual
inundations” [syn:
flood,
inundation,
alluvion]
v 1: fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid;
“the
basement was inundated after the storm”;
“The images
flooded his mind” [syn:
flood,
inundate,
swamp]
2: charge someone with too many tasks [syn:
overwhelm,
flood out
]
3: fill or cover completely, usually with water [syn:
inundate,
submerge]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Deluge
Deluge
\Del"uge\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Deluged; p. pr. & vb. n.
Deluging.]
1. To overflow with water; to inundate; to overwhelm.
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The deluged earth would useless grow. --Blackmore.
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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.
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At length corruption, like a general flood . . .
Shall deluge all. --Pope.
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Deluge
\Del"uge\ (d[e^]l"[-u]j), 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.).
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2. Fig.: Anything which overwhelms, or causes great
destruction.
“The deluge of summer.” --Lowell.
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A fiery deluge fed
With ever-burning sulphur unconsumed. --Milton.
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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.
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After me the deluge.
(Apr['e]s moi le d['e]luge.) --Madame de
Pompadour.
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