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- Dictionarydeluge/ˈdɛljuː(d)ʒ/
noun
- 1. a severe flood: "this may be the worst deluge in living memory" Similar
verb
- 1. overwhelm with a flood: "caravans were deluged by the heavy rains" Similar
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The meaning of DELUGE is an overflowing of the land by water. How to use deluge in a sentence.
DELUGE definition: 1. a very large amount of rain or water: 2. a lot of something: 3. to cover something with a lot…. Learn more.
Deluge definition: a great flood of water; inundation; flood. . See examples of DELUGE used in a sentence.
The noun deluge is an overwhelming amount of something in general, such as work, people, or questions. Because of its Latin roots, however, in particular it means an overwhelming amount of water. It comes from diluvian, which means flood.
n. 1. a great flood of water. 2. torrential rain; downpour. 3. an overwhelming rush or number: a deluge of requests. vb (tr) 4. to flood, as with water; soak, swamp, or drown. 5. to overwhelm or overrun; inundate.
A deluge of things is a large number of them which arrive or happen at the same time. If a place or person is deluged with things, a large number of them arrive or happen at the same time. A deluge is a sudden, very heavy fall of rain. About a dozen homes were damaged in the deluge.
verb (used with object) , del·uged, del·ug·ing. to flood; inundate. to overrun; overwhelm: She was deluged with congratulatory letters. Deluge. 1. / ˈdɛljuːdʒ / noun. the Deluge. another name for the Flood.
An overwhelming amount of something; anything that overwhelms or causes great destruction. The rock concert was a deluge of sound. Wiktionary. Synonyms: overprovision. overprovide. soaker. pelter. torrent.
A deluge of things is a large number of them which arrive or happen at the same time.
a severe flood; a sudden very heavy fall of rain synonym flood. When the snow melts, the mountain stream becomes a deluge. The earlier deluge had given way to more normal rain. An unseasonable deluge had washed away a section of river bank.
