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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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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.
The meaning of DELUGE is an overflowing of the land by water. How to use deluge 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.
noun. a great flood of water; inundation; flood. a drenching rain; downpour. anything that overwhelms like a flood: a deluge of mail. Synonyms: catastrophe, cataclysm. the Deluge. flood ( def 3 ). verb (used with object) , del·uged, del·ug·ing. to flood; inundate. to overrun; overwhelm: She was deluged with congratulatory letters. Deluge. 1.
A deluge of things is a large number of them which arrive or happen at the same time.
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 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.
