Found 3 items, similar to Deluge.
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: deluge air bah, banjir, melimpahi
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. [1913 Webster] The deluged earth would useless grow. --Blackmore. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] At length corruption, like a general flood . . . Shall deluge all. --Pope. [1913 Webster] || 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.). [1913 Webster] 2. Fig.: Anything which overwhelms, or causes great destruction. “The deluge of summer.” --Lowell. [1913 Webster] A fiery deluge fed With ever-burning sulphur unconsumed. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] After me the deluge. (Apr['e]s moi le d['e]luge.) --Madame de Pompadour. [1913 Webster]