deluge
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del·uge
(dĕl'yūj, -yūzh, dā'lūj, -lūzh, dĭ-lūj', -lūzh') 
n.
n.
- A great flood.
- A heavy downpour.
- Something that overwhelms as if by a great flood: a deluge of fan mail.
- Deluge In the Bible, the great flood that occurred in the time of Noah.
- To overrun with water; inundate.
- To overwhelm with a large number or amount; swamp: The press secretary was deluged with requests for information.
[From Middle English, flood, from Old French, from Latin dīluvium, from dīluere, to wash away : dis-, apart; see dis- + -luere, to wash.]
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deluge
noun
- An abundant, usually overwhelming flow or fall, as of a river or rain: alluvion, cataclysm, cataract, downpour, flood, freshet, inundation, Niagara, overflow, torrent. Chiefly British spate. See big/small/amount.
verb
- To flow over completely: drown, engulf, flood, flush, inundate, overflow, overwhelm, submerge, whelm. See full/empty/capacity.
- To affect as if by an outpouring of water: flood, inundate, overwhelm, swamp, whelm. See full/empty/capacity.
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deluge
n
Definition: barrage
Antonyms: trickle
n
Definition: downpour
Antonyms: drizzle
Columbia Encyclopedia:
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deluge
Deluge (dĕl'yūj), in the Bible, the overwhelming flood that covered the earth and destroyed every living thing except the family of Noah and the creatures in his ark. Archaeology has yielded little trace of the biblical flood, but some oceanographers and geophysicists have speculated that the actual deluge occurred in the Black Sea region some 7,600 years ago, when rising sea levels in the Mediterranean (due to melting glaciers) flooded into the Black Sea and inundated the surrounding coast.
Many archaeologists and historians, however, do not believe that the inundation of the ancient Black Sea coast is the origin of the flood story, regarding the periodic flooding of the Tigris and Euphrates as a more likely model for the tale. Flood stories resembling the biblical story are found in the folklore of many races-Native Americans, Fiji Islanders, and Australian aborigines. The earliest known of these stories is Sumerian, one form being found in the record of Berossus (3d cent. B.C.), another on a tablet of the Gilgamesh epic of at least 2000 B.C. See Deucalion and Ur.
Bibliography
See N. Cohn, Noah's Flood: The Genesis Story in Western Thought (1996); W. Ryan and W. Pitman, Noah's Flood (1999).
Devil's Dictionary:
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deluge
A cynical view of the world by Ambrose Bierce
n.
A notable first experiment in baptism which washed away the sins (and sinners) of the world.
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categories related to 'deluge'
- Storms - deluge: heavy rainstorm that causes flooding
- Wet weather
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Deluge
Dansk (Danish)
n. - oversvømmelse, syndflod, skybrud, Syndfloden
v. tr. - oversvømme, drukne
Nederlands (Dutch)
stortbui, stortvloed, overstroming, zondvloed, overstromen, overstelpen
Français (French)
n. - (lit, fig) déluge, inondation
v. tr. - (lit, fig) inonder de, submerger de
Deutsch (German)
v. - überschwemmen
n. - Sturzflut, Sintflut, Überschwemmung
Ελληνική (Greek)
v. - κατακλύζω, πλημμυρίζω
n. - κατακλυσμός, (μτφ.) κατακλυσμιαία βροχή
Italiano (Italian)
inondare, diluvio, alluvione
Português (Portuguese)
v. - inundar
n. - inundação (f), dilúvio (m)
Русский (Russian)
затоплять, поток, потоп
Español (Spanish)
n. - torrente, chaparrón, inundación, riada
v. tr. - inundar, abrumar
Svenska (Swedish)
v. - dränka, översvämma
n. - översvämnig, skyfall
中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
大洪水, 泛滥, 使泛滥, 蜂拥而至, 淹没, 压倒
中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 大洪水, 泛濫
v. tr. - 使泛濫, 蜂擁而至, 淹沒, 壓倒
한국어 (Korean)
n. - 대홍수, (방문객 등의) 쇄도
v. tr. - 흘러 넘치게 하다, 쇄도하다
日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 大洪水, 大雨, 押し寄せるもの, 殺到, ノアの大洪水
v. - 氾濫させる, 殺到する
العربيه (Arabic)
(فعل) يبعث أو يعطي شخص أو شئ كميه هائله من شئ ما, يغمر, يغرق بشئ وبخاصه بالماء (الاسم) طوفان, مطر شديد, كم هائل من شئ يتجمع في نفس الوقت
עברית (Hebrew)
n. - מבול
v. tr. - המטיר, הציף
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