Definition of Deluge

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Deluge

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.).

Fig.: Anything which overwhelms, or causes great destruction.

To overflow with water; to inundate; to overwhelm.

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.

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Deluge Quotations

Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge.
Horace Mann

To pass to the deluge, and beyond it, and to come to close quarters with our proper division, the origin of Romance itself is a very debatable subject, or rather it is a subject which the wiser mind will hardly care to debate much.
George Saintsbury

Captain Fisher, the commander, with a party of young ladies from the city and gentlemen belonging to his ship, came one day to pay me a visit in the midst of a deluge of rain.
Joshua Slocum

Loud roared the dreadful thunder, The rain a deluge showers.
Andrew Cherry

Deluge Translations

deluge in Dutch is zondvloed
deluge in Italian is dilagare, dilagare
deluge in Spanish is arriar, diluvio

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