Defenition of the word deluge
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Defenition of the word deluge
- An extreme heavy shower.
- fill beyond capacity; "The water flooded the fields"
- fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid; "the basement was inundated after the storm"; "The images flooded his mind"
- a heavy rain
- an overwhelming number or amount; "a flood of requests"; "a torrent of abuse"
- the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land
- fill or cover completely, usually with water
- charge someone with too many tasks
- the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land; "plains fertilized by annual inundations"
- an overwhelming number or amount
- fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid
Synonyms for the word deluge
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- bury
- cascade
- cloudburst
- downpour
- drench
- drown
- flood
- flood out
- heavy rain
- heavy shower
- inundate
- inundation
- monsoon
- overflow
- overload
- overrun
- overwhelm
- saturate
- shower
- soak
- soaker
- submerge
- surge
- swamp
- torrent
- torrential rain
- waterspout
Similar words in the deluge
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- deluge
- deluge's
- deluged
- deluges
- flood in
Hyponyms for the word deluge
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- debacle
- flash flood
- flashflood
- noachian deluge
- noah and the flood
- noah's flood
- the flood
Hypernyms for the word deluge
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- batch
- burden
- charge
- deal
- fill
- fill up
- flock
- flood
- geological phenomenon
- good deal
- great deal
- hatful
- heap
- lot
- make full
- mass
- mess
- mickle
- mint
- mountain
- muckle
- occupy
- passel
- peck
- pile
- plenty
- pot
- quite a little
- raft
- rain
- rainfall
- saddle
- sight
- slew
- spate
- stack
- tidy sum
- wad
- whole lot
- whole slew
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