Feeling overwhelmed, like you're underwater? You might be experiencing a deluge like when you've been given a deluge of homework over vacation: a dozen term papers, two dozen books to read, and a mile high stack of math problems.
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.).
Noun
the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land; "plains fertilized by annual inundations"
Noun
a heavy rain
Noun
an overwhelming number or amount; "a flood of requests"; "a torrent of abuse"
Verb
fill or cover completely, usually with water
Verb
charge someone with too many tasks
Verb
fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid; "the basement was inundated after the storm"; "The images flooded his mind"
n.
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.).
n.
Fig.: Anything which overwhelms, or causes great
destruction.
v. t.
To overflow with water; to inundate; to overwhelm.
v. t.
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.
Deluge
A fiery deluge fed With ever-burning sulphur unconsumed.
As I grub up some quaint old fragment of a [London] street, or a house, or a shop, or tomb or burial ground, which has still survived in the deluge.
After me the deluge. (Apr'82s moi le d'82luge.)
Deluge
The deluged earth would useless grow.2.
At length corruption, like a general fl . . . Shall deluge all.
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.).
To overflow with water; to inundate; to overwhelm.
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Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge.
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