deluge
Plural: deluges
Noun
- an overwhelming number or amount
- a heavy rain
- the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land
- A great flood or rain.
- An overwhelming amount of something; anything that overwhelms or causes great destruction.
- A system for flooding or drenching a space, container, or area with water in an emergency to prevent or extinguish a fire.
Verb
Verb Forms: deluged, deluging, deluges
- To overwhelm with a great flood or a large quantity.
- fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid
- charge someone with too many tasks
- fill or cover completely, usually with water
- To flood with water.
- To overwhelm.
Examples
- After the announcement, they were deluged with requests for more information.
- Some areas were deluged with a month's worth of rain in 24 hours.
- The deluge continued for hours, drenching the land and slowing traffic to a halt.
- The opponent’s triple-word score seemed to DELUGE all hope for a comeback.
- The rock concert was a deluge of sound.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English deluge, from Old French deluge, alteration of earlier deluvie, from Latin dīluvium, from dīluō (“wash away”). Doublet of diluvium.
Synonyms
alluvion, cloudburst, downpour, flood, flood out, inundate, inundation, overwhelm, pelter, soaker, submerge, swamp, torrent, waterspout
Scrabble Score: 8
deluge: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Worddeluge: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
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