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- DictionaryDel·uge/ˈdelˌyo͞oj/
noun
- 1. a severe flood: "this may be the worst deluge in living memory"
verb
- 1. inundate with a great quantity of something: "he has been deluged with offers of work"
1. a. : an overflowing of the land by water. b. : a drenching rain. a deluge causing mudslides in the area. 2. : an overwhelming amount or number. received a deluge of angry phone calls.
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.
Deluge definition: a great flood of water; inundation; flood. . See examples of DELUGE used 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. The verb deluge similarly means to overwhelm or inundate with something, particularly water.
6 days ago · deluge. A deluge of things is a large number of them which arrive or happen at the same time. If a place or person is deluged with things, a large number of them arrive or happen at the same time. A deluge is a sudden, very heavy fall of rain. About a dozen homes were damaged in the deluge.
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.
deluge. noun. /ˈdeljuːdʒ/. /ˈdeljuːdʒ/. [usually singular] 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.
