Definitions for deluge
ˈdɛl yudʒ, -yuʒ, -udʒ, -uʒ, dɪˈludʒ, -ˈluʒdel·uge

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:3.0 / 2 votes

1. flood, inundation, deluge, torrentnoun

   an overwhelming number or amount

   "a flood of requests"; "a torrent of abuse"

2. downpour, cloudburst, deluge, waterspout, torrent, pelter, soakernoun

   a heavy rain

3. flood, inundation, deluge, alluvionverb

   the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land

   "plains fertilized by annual inundations"

4. deluge, flood, inundate, swampverb

   fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid

   "the basement was inundated after the storm"; "The images flooded his mind"

5. overwhelm, deluge, flood outverb

   charge someone with too many tasks

6. inundate, deluge, submergeverb

   fill or cover completely, usually with water

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. delugenoun

   A great flood or rain.

   The deluge continued for hours, drenching the land and slowing traffic to a halt.

2. delugenoun

   An overwhelming amount of something.

   The rock concert was a deluge of sound.

3. delugeverb

   To flood with water.

4. delugeverb

   To overwhelm.

   After the announcement, they were deluged with requests for more information.

5. Delugenoun

   The Biblical flood during the time of Noah.

6. Etymology: See deluge.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. DELUGEnoun

   Etymology: deluge, French, from diluvium, Latin.

   1. A general inundation; a laying entirely under water.

   The apostle doth plainly intimate, that the old world was subject to perish by a deluge, as this is subject to perish by conflagration. Thomas Burnet, Theory of the Earth.

   2. An overflowing of the natural bounds of a river.

   But if with bays and dams they strive to force
   His channel to a new or narrow course,
   No longer then within his banks he dwells,
   First to a torrent, then a deluge swells. John Denham.

   3. Any sudden and resistless calamity.

2. To Delugeverb

   Etymology: from the noun.

   1. To drown; to lay totally under water.

   The restless flood the land would overflow,
   By which the delug’d earth would useless grow. Richard Blackmore.

   Still the battering waves rush in
   Implacable, ’till delug’d by the foam
   The ship sinks, found’ring in the vast abyss. Philips.

   2. To overwhelm; to cause to sink under the weight of any calamity.

   At length corruption, like a general flood,
   Shall deluge all. Alexander Pope, Epist. iii. l. 137.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Delugenoun

   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. Delugenoun

   fig.: Anything which overwhelms, or causes great destruction

3. Delugeverb

   to overflow with water; to inundate; to overwhelm

4. Delugeverb

   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. Etymology: [F. dluge, L. diluvium, fr. diluere wash away; di- = dis- + luere, equiv. to lavare to wash. See Lave, and cf. Diluvium.]

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Deluge

   del′ūj, n. a great overflow of water: a flood: esp. that in the days of Noah.—v.t. to inundate: to overwhelm as with water. [Fr.,—L. diluvium—diluĕre—dis, away, luĕre, to wash.]

The Nuttall EncyclopediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Deluge

   name given to the tradition, common to several races, of a flood of such universality as to sweep the land, if not the earth, of all its inhabitants, except the pair by whom the land of the earth was repeopled.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of deluge in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of deluge in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of deluge in a Sentence

1. Ismail Haniya:

   I say to our people everywhere, be prepared for a human deluge on all of the borders of Palestine, inside the occupied land and outside the occupied land, i say to the (Israeli occupiers) your time is gone.

2. Albert Einstein:

   Since that deluge of newspaper articles I have been so flooded with questions, invitations, suggestions, that I keep dreaming I am roasting in Hell, and the mailman is the devil eternally yelling at me, showering me with more bundles of letters at my head because I have not answered the old ones.

3. Trizia Herrera:

   It's not just that the risk of infection is high but what's being called a return to the new normal could make new cases increase exponentially... leading to more loss of life, it seems premature that President Lopez Obrador is talking about ruling out a deluge in Mexico, as the epidemic is still growing.

4. Stephen Innes:

   The deluge of U.S. crude production continues to hold the top-side in check.

5. Horace Mann:

   Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge.

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