meaning of deluge
1. To overflow with water; to inundate; to overwhelm.
2. 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.
3. 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. ).
4. Fig. : Anything which overwhelms, or causes great destruction.
5. the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land; "plains fertilized by annual
">inundations"
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