1a. A great flood. b. A heavy downpour. 2. Something that overwhelms as if by a great flood: a deluge of fan mail.3.Deluge In the Bible, the great flood that occurred in the time of Noah.
TRANSITIVE VERB:
Inflected forms: del·uged, del·ug·ing, del·ug·es 1. To overrun with water; inundate. 2. To overwhelm with a large number or amount; swamp: The press secretary was deluged with requests for information.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Middle English, flood, from Old French, from Latin dluvium, from dluere, to wash away : dis-, apart; see dis– + -luere, to wash; see leu()- in Appendix I.
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