Thesaurus: deluge

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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. n. Fig.: Anything which overwhelms, or causes great destruction.
3. v. t. To overflow with water; to inundate; to overwhelm.
4. v. t. 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.
5. n. an overwhelming number or amount
6. n. a heavy rain
7. n. the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land
8. v. fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid
9. v. charge someone with too many tasks
10. v. fill or cover completely, usually with water
11. 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.). 2. Fig.: Anything which overwhelms, or causes great destruction. "The deluge of summer." Lowell. 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. (Aprés moi le déluge.) Madame de Pompadour. 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 fldeluge all. Pope.
12. v:30/n:70 v. fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid