deluge
Meaning of deluge
noun
- A great flood or rain.
The deluge continued for hours, drenching the land and slowing traffic to a halt.
- An overwhelming amount of something; anything that overwhelms or causes great destruction.
The rock concert was a deluge of sound.
- (military engineering) A damage control system on navy warships which is activated by excessive temperature within the Vertical Launching System.
- To flood with water.
Some areas were deluged with a month's worth of rain in 24 hours.
- To overwhelm.
After the announcement, they were deluged with requests for more information.
Information about deluge
- The plural form of deluge is: deluges.
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Hyphenation of deluge
del-uge
- It consists of 2 syllables and 6 chars.
- deluge is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
deluge synonyms
Meaning flood:
flood, inundation, torrent, alluvion, inundate, swamp
Meaning downpour:
downpour, cloudburst, waterspout, torrent, pelter, soaker
Meaning overwhelm:
Meaning inundate:
Translation of deluge
- French: déluge, abat, trombe
- Spanish: diluvio, chubasco, aguacero
- Italian: acquata
- Portuguese: temporal
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