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An extensive overflow or sweeping flood of water; a deluge.

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  1. n. An extensive overflow or sweeping flood of water; a deluge.
  2. n. Any violent catastrophe, involving sudden and extensive changes of the earth's surface.
  3. n. a sudden violent change in the earth's surface
  4. n. an event resulting in great loss and misfortune
  5. 1. An extensive overflow or sweeping flood of water; a deluge. 2. (Geol.) Any violent catastrophe, involving sudden and extensive changes of the earth's surface.
  6. Any violent catastrophe, involving sudden and extensive changesof the earth's surface.
  7. n:100 n a sudden violent change in the earth's surface n an event resulting in great loss and misfortune