deluge
IPA: dˈɛɫjudʒ
noun
- A great flood or rain.
- An overwhelming amount of something; anything that overwhelms or causes great destruction.
- (firefighting) A system for flooding or drenching a space, container, or area with water in an emergency to prevent or extinguish a fire.
- (biblical) The Biblical flood taking place in the story of Noah in Genesis.
verb
- (transitive) To flood with water.
- (transitive) To overwhelm.
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Examples of "deluge" in Sentences
- He fought in The Deluge and the Chmielnicki Uprising.
- In 2003, he starred in the telemovie, After the Deluge.
- The damage from the deluge was exacerbated by its timing.
- People started to equip flashing materials because of deluge.
- During The Deluge the town was pillaged and burnt by the Swedes.
- Dr. Dino says the water for the great deluge came from the oceans.
- Or the tales of the Great Deluge that exist in Luzon and in Visayan lores.
- But that is no reason to delude our readers with a deluge of circumlocution.
- It was the turning point of the war of Poland with Sweden during The Deluge.
- A plunky drinker refuses to be beaten by the floods yesterday as he enjoys a pint in the deluge.
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