Deluge
['deljuːdʒ] or ['dɛljʊdʒ]
Definition
(verb.) fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid; 'the basement was inundated after the storm'; 'The images flooded his mind'.
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Definition
(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.).
(n.) Fig.: Anything which overwhelms, or causes great destruction.
(v. t.) To overflow with water; to inundate; to overwhelm.
(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.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Flood, overflow, inundation, cataclysm.
v. a. Submerge, inundate, overflow, drown, overwhelm.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Inundation, rush, flood, redundance
ANT:Mist, moisture, dearth, drought, aridity, subsidence, exsiccation
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Definition
n. a great overflow of water: a flood: esp. that in the days of Noah.—v.t. to inundate: to overwhelm as with water.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
n. A notable first experiment in baptism which washed away the sins (and sinners) of the world.
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Examples
- The windows by no means escape the general deluge. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- The world began again after a deluge and was reconstructed out of the fragments of itself. Plato. The Republic.
- The thunder was rolling into distance, and the rain was pouring down like a deluge, when the door of his room opened. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- What wasteful desolation have we not suffered from the deluge of a sudden shower! Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Let cares like a wild deluge come, And storms of sorrow fall, May I but safely reach my home, My God, my Heaven, my All. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- The deluge came--all hell broke loose upon the jungle. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Hence the deluge of half-observations, of verbal ideas, and unassimilated knowledge which afflicts the world. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- When the massacre of St. Bartholomew’s Eve deluged France with the blood of Protestants Catherine saw that Palissy was spared from the general destruction. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Would not our little island be deluged by its approach? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- She insisted that the Doctor should call twice a day; and deluged her patient with draughts every two hours. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- That she had a presentiment, that the tide of calamity which deluged our unhappy race had now turned. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The senseless spirit of conquest and thirst of spoil blinded them, while with insane fury they deluged the country in ruin. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
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