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deluge
del·uge D0116600 (dĕl′yo͞oj, -yo͞ozh, dā′lo͞oj, -lo͞ozh, dĭ-lo͞oj′, -lo͞ozh′)n.1. a. A great flood.b. A heavy downpour.2. Something that overwhelms as if by a great flood: a deluge of fan mail.3. Deluge In the Bible, the great flood that occurred in the time of Noah.tr.v. del·uged, del·ug·ing, del·ug·es 1. To overrun with water; inundate.2. To overwhelm with a large number or amount; swamp: The press secretary was deluged with requests for information.
[From Middle English, flood, from Old French, from Latin dīluvium, from dīluere, to wash away : dis-, apart; see dis- + -luere, to wash; see leu(ə)- in Indo-European roots.]deluge (ˈdɛljuːdʒ) n1. a great flood of water2. torrential rain; downpour3. an overwhelming rush or number: a deluge of requests. vb (tr) 4. to flood, as with water; soak, swamp, or drown5. to overwhelm or overrun; inundate[C14: from Old French, from Latin dīluvium a washing away, flood, from dīluere to wash away, drench, from di- dis-1 + -luere, from lavere to wash]
Deluge n (Bible) the Deluge another name for the Flood del•uge (ˈdɛl yudʒ, -yuʒ, -udʒ, -uʒ, dɪˈludʒ, -ˈluʒ)
n., v. -uged, -ug•ing. n. 1. a great flood of water; inundation; flood. 2. a drenching rain; downpour. 3. anything that overwhelms like a flood: a deluge of mail. 4. the Deluge, flood (def. 3). v.t. 5. to flood; inundate. 6. to overrun; overwhelm. [1325–75; Middle English < Old French < Latin dīluvium flood =dīluv-, base of dīluere to wash away (see dilute) + -ium -ium1] deluge
Past participle: deluged
Gerund: deluging
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| I deluge | | you deluge | | he/she/it deluges | | we deluge | | you deluge | | they deluge |
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| I deluged | | you deluged | | he/she/it deluged | | we deluged | | you deluged | | they deluged |
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| I am deluging | | you are deluging | | he/she/it is deluging | | we are deluging | | you are deluging | | they are deluging |
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| I have deluged | | you have deluged | | he/she/it has deluged | | we have deluged | | you have deluged | | they have deluged |
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| I was deluging | | you were deluging | | he/she/it was deluging | | we were deluging | | you were deluging | | they were deluging |
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| I had deluged | | you had deluged | | he/she/it had deluged | | we had deluged | | you had deluged | | they had deluged |
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| I will deluge | | you will deluge | | he/she/it will deluge | | we will deluge | | you will deluge | | they will deluge |
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| I will have deluged | | you will have deluged | | he/she/it will have deluged | | we will have deluged | | you will have deluged | | they will have deluged |
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| I will be deluging | | you will be deluging | | he/she/it will be deluging | | we will be deluging | | you will be deluging | | they will be deluging |
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| I have been deluging | | you have been deluging | | he/she/it has been deluging | | we have been deluging | | you have been deluging | | they have been deluging |
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| I will have been deluging | | you will have been deluging | | he/she/it will have been deluging | | we will have been deluging | | you will have been deluging | | they will have been deluging |
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| I had been deluging | | you had been deluging | | he/she/it had been deluging | | we had been deluging | | you had been deluging | | they had been deluging |
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| I would deluge | | you would deluge | | he/she/it would deluge | | we would deluge | | you would deluge | | they would deluge |
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| I would have deluged | | you would have deluged | | he/she/it would have deluged | | we would have deluged | | you would have deluged | | they would have deluged |
Thesaurus| Noun | 1. |  deluge - an overwhelming number or amount; "a flood of requests"; "a torrent of abuse"flood, inundation, torrentgood deal, great deal, hatful, lot, muckle, passel, peck, mickle, mint, quite a little, slew, spate, tidy sum, wad, stack, raft, mountain, pile, plenty, mass, batch, heap, deal, flock, pot, mess, sight - (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent; "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos"; "it must have cost plenty"; "a slew of journalists"; "a wad of money" | | 2. |  deluge - a heavy rain cloudburst, downpour, pelter, soaker, torrent, waterspoutrain, rainfall - water falling in drops from vapor condensed in the atmosphere | | 3. |  deluge - the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land; "plains fertilized by annual inundations"flood, inundation, alluviongeological phenomenon - a natural phenomenon involving the structure or composition of the earthdebacle - flooding caused by a tumultuous breakup of ice in a river during the spring or summerflash flood, flashflood - a sudden local flood of great volume and short durationNoachian deluge, Noah and the Flood, Noah's flood, the Flood - (Biblical) the great deluge that is said in the Book of Genesis to have occurred in the time of Noah; it was brought by God upon the earth because of the wickedness of human beings | | Verb | 1. | deluge - fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid; "the basement was inundated after the storm"; "The images flooded his mind"flood, inundate, swampfill, fill up, make full - make full, also in a metaphorical sense; "fill a container"; "fill the child with pride" | | 2. | deluge - charge someone with too many tasksflood out, overwhelmburden, saddle, charge - impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to; "He charged her with cleaning up all the files over the weekend" | | 3. | deluge - fill or cover completely, usually with waterinundate, submergeflood - cover with liquid, usually water; "The swollen river flooded the village"; "The broken vein had flooded blood in her eyes" |
delugenoun1. rush, flood, avalanche, barrage, spate, torrent a deluge of criticism2. flood, spate, overflowing, torrent, downpour, cataclysm, inundation A dozen homes were damaged in the deluge.verb1. overwhelm, swamp, engulf, overload, overrun, inundate The office was deluged with complaints.2. flood, drown, swamp, submerge, soak, drench, inundate, douse Torrential rain deluged the capital.delugenounAn abundant, usually overwhelming flow or fall, as of a river or rain:alluvion, cataclysm, cataract, downpour, flood, freshet, inundation, Niagara, overflow, torrent.Chiefly British: spate.verb1. To flow over completely:drown, engulf, flood, flush, inundate, overflow, overwhelm, submerge, whelm.2. To affect as if by an outpouring of water:flood, inundate, overwhelm, swamp, whelm.Translationsdeluge (ˈdeljuːdʒ) noun a great quantity of water. Few people survived the deluge. 洪水 洪水 verb to fill or overwhelm with a great quantity. We've been deluged with orders for our new book. 使滿溢，使泛濫 使满溢，使泛滥 deluge
deluge (someone or something) with (something)1. Literally, to flood with water or another liquid or substance. The heavy rains brought by the hurricane deluged our basement with water. The contained deluged me with glitter when I opened it upside down.2. By extension, to overwhelm or overpower someone or something with something. Many of my students are now applying to college and have deluged me with requests for recommendations.See also: delugeaprès moi le delugeProblems will happen in the future. This French phrase literally means, "After me, the deluge." Attributed to both King Louis XVI and his mistress Madame de Pompadour, the phrase likely refers to (and foreshadows) the difficulties that would befall France after years of the aristocracy's lavish living. A: "Well, après moi le deluge." B: "Do you really have no regard for the trouble you're causing?See also: après, delugedeluge someone or something with something 1. Lit. to flood someone or something with water or something similar. The swollen river broke the dam and deluged the town with billions of gallons of water. 2. Fig. to overwhelm someone or something with something; to "flood" someone or something with something. The reporters deluged us with questions.See also: delugeaprès moi le délugeAfter I’m dead nothing will matter. This cliché, literally meaning “after me, the flood,” was allegedly said in slightly different form in 1757 by Madame de Pompadour to Louis XV after Frederick the Great defeated the French and Austrians at Rossbach. (She put it après nous le déluge, “after us the flood.”) The flood alludes to the biblical flood in which all but those on Noah’s ark perished. The phrase is still always stated in French.See also: après, delugeaprès moi le delugeA disaster will follow. The French phrase, translated as “After me the deluge,” has been attributed to King Louis XVI or to his mistress, Madame de Pompadour. He or she was referring to the centuries of excessive living enjoyed by the aristocracy and paid for by the rest of France and what would happen as a result when His Majesty (or Madame) went to their heavenly rest. Whether the king or his main squeeze was predicting a cataclysm or simply indicating that he or she didn't care what came after them isn't clear. Nevertheless, whoever spoke the words was a prophet in his or her time: fourteen years after Louis's death came the revolution that swept away the old order, including Louis's son. No one could have been ideologically further from the Bourbon monarchy than Karl Marx, who repeated the phrase in his Das Kapital: “Après moi le déluge! is the watchword of every capitalist and of every capitalist nation. Hence capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the labourer, unless under compulsion from society.” The phrase is the very appropriate motto of Britain's Royal Air Force 617 Squadron, nicknamed “the Dam Busters” for its sorties against German dams during World War II.See also: après, delugeDeluge
Deluge (dĕl`yo͞oj), in the Bible, the overwhelming flood that covered the earth and destroyed every living thing except the family of NoahNoah
[Heb.,=to rest], in the Bible, the builder of the ark. Righteous Noah and his family were the only people God saved from a world sunk in sin. At divine direction Noah built the ship that saved human and animal life from the Deluge, after which God established a covenant
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in the Bible. 1 Boat of Noah, which he built at God's command to preserve his family and certain creatures from the Deluge. 2 Ark of the Covenant, the sacred wooden chest of the Hebrews, representative of God or identified with Him.
..... Click the link for more information. . Archaeology has yielded little trace of the biblical flood, but some oceanographers and geophysicists have speculated that the actual deluge occurred in the Black Sea region some 7,600 years ago, when rising sea levels in the Mediterranean (due to melting glaciers) flooded into the Black Sea and inundated the surrounding coast. Many archaeologists and historians, however, do not believe that the inundation of the ancient Black Sea coast is the origin of the flood story, regarding the periodic flooding of the Tigris and Euphrates as a more likely model for the tale. Flood stories resembling the biblical story are found in the folklore of many races—Native Americans, Fiji Islanders, and Australian aborigines. The earliest known of these stories is Sumerian, one form being found in the record of Berossus (3d cent. B.C.), another on a tablet of the Gilgamesh epic of at least 2000 B.C. See DeucalionDeucalion
, in Greek mythology, son of Prometheus and father of Hellen. When Zeus, angered by humanity's irreverence, flooded the earth, Deucalion, warned by Prometheus, survived by taking refuge with his wife, Pyrrha, in an ark.
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, ancient city of Sumer, S Mesopotamia. The city is also known as Ur of the Chaldees. It was an important center of Sumerian culture (see Sumer) and is identified in the Bible as the home of Abraham. The site was discovered in the 19th cent.
..... Click the link for more information. . Bibliography See N. Cohn, Noah's Flood: The Genesis Story in Western Thought (1996); W. Ryan and W. Pitman, Noah's Flood (1999). Delugeearth-covering flood that destroyed all but Noah’s family and animals in the ark. [O.T.: Genesis 6–8]See: Disasterdeluge
Synonyms for delugenoun rushSynonyms- rush
- flood
- avalanche
- barrage
- spate
- torrent
noun floodSynonyms- flood
- spate
- overflowing
- torrent
- downpour
- cataclysm
- inundation
verb overwhelmSynonyms- overwhelm
- swamp
- engulf
- overload
- overrun
- inundate
verb floodSynonyms- flood
- drown
- swamp
- submerge
- soak
- drench
- inundate
- douse
Synonyms for delugenoun an abundant, usually overwhelming flow or fall, as of a river or rainSynonyms- alluvion
- cataclysm
- cataract
- downpour
- flood
- freshet
- inundation
- Niagara
- overflow
- torrent
- spate
verb to flow over completelySynonyms- drown
- engulf
- flood
- flush
- inundate
- overflow
- overwhelm
- submerge
- whelm
verb to affect as if by an outpouring of waterSynonyms- flood
- inundate
- overwhelm
- swamp
- whelm
Synonyms for delugenoun an overwhelming number or amountSynonymsRelated Words- good deal
- great deal
- hatful
- lot
- muckle
- passel
- peck
- mickle
- mint
- quite a little
- slew
- spate
- tidy sum
- wad
- stack
- raft
- mountain
- pile
- plenty
- mass
- batch
- heap
- deal
- flock
- pot
- mess
- sight
noun a heavy rainSynonyms- cloudburst
- downpour
- pelter
- soaker
- torrent
- waterspout
Related Wordsnoun the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry landSynonymsRelated Words- geological phenomenon
- debacle
- flash flood
- flashflood
- Noachian deluge
- Noah and the Flood
- Noah's flood
- the Flood
verb fill quickly beyond capacitySynonymsRelated Wordsverb charge someone with too many tasksSynonymsRelated Wordsverb fill or cover completely, usually with waterSynonymsRelated Words |