deluge
Syllables: del·ugeUK/ˈdɛl.juː(d)ʒ//ˈdɛl.ju(d)ʒ/
deluge noun: a great flood or rain.
Noun
deluge (plural deluges)
- 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.
- A fiery deluge fed / With ever-burning sulphur unconsumed.1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished...
- A system for flooding or drenching a space, container, or area with water in an emergency to prevent or extinguish a fire.
- deluge system, deluge gun, deluge set
- In the event of a restrained firing or canister overtemperature condition, the deluge system sprays cooling water within the canister until the overtemperature condition no longer exists.2002, NAVEDTRA, Gunner's Mate 14324A
Verb
deluge (third-person singular simple present deluges, present participle deluging, simple past and past participle deluged)
- To flood with water.
- Some areas were deluged with a month's worth of rain in 24 hours.
- South Yorkshire 2019: The track at Conisbrough is deluged by floodwater. Lines were shut and services were disrupted across Yorkshire and the East Midlands.2020 July 29, Andrew Roden, “ORR demands more action on weather resistance”, in Rail, page 21, photo caption
- To overwhelm.
- After the announcement, they were deluged with requests for more information.
- In Women on the Verge all of the characters are deluged by and constantly dealing with the effects and messages of pop culture.1988 December 25, Michael Bronski, “Passion Statement”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 24, page 11
Proper noun capitalized: Deluge
the Deluge
deluge meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam
deluge in Tamil
- பெருமழை, பெருவெள்ளம்
deluge in Urdu
- سیلاب, طغیانی, طوفان
deluge in Bengali
- মহা প্লাবন, প্রবল বর্ষণ
deluge in Malayalam
- great flood
- പ്രളയം praḷayaṁ
- great rain
- പേമാരി pēmāri
- an overwhelming amount of something
- പെരുമഴ perumaḻa
More languagesFewer languages
- deluge in Kannada
- ದೊಡ್ಡನೆರೆ, ದೊಡ್ಡಮಳೆ, ನುಗ್ಗಾಟ, ಜಲಪ್ರಳಯ
- deluge in Tagalog
- delubyo
- deluge in Arabic
- طُوفَان ṭūfān
Examples of deluge in a sentence
- The little bird sits at his door in the sun, / Atilt like a blossom among the leaves, / And lets his illumined being o'errun / With the deluge of summer it receives.1848, James Russell Lowell, The Vision of Sir Launfal:
- The materials released did not ignite before the deluge system was manually activated, controlling the incident.2009 January 13, National Transportation Safety Board, “Earlier Western Accidents”, in Special Investigation Report: Mobile Acetylene...
Synonyms of deluge
Forms of deluge
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | deluges |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | deluges |
| present participle | deluging |
| past participle | deluged |
| past | deluged |
Origin of deluge
From Middle English deluge, from Old French deluge, alteration of earlier deluvie, from Latin dīluvium, from dīluō (“wash away”). Doublet of diluvium.
Words formed from deluge
Phrases with deluge
Questions about deluge
- What does deluge mean?
- Deluge means a great flood or rain.
- What is deluge in Tamil?
- Deluge in Tamil is பெருமழை, பெருவெள்ளம். See Deluge meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use deluge in a sentence?
- The little bird sits at his door in the sun, / Atilt like a blossom among the leaves, / And lets his illumined being o'errun / With the deluge of summer it receives.
- What part of speech is deluge?
- Deluge can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce deluge?
- Deluge is pronounced /ˈdɛl.juː(d)ʒ/ (UK).
- What is the plural of deluge?
- The plural of deluge is deluges.
Words near deluge in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: deluge (page history and authors); Deluge (page history and authors); deluge (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); deluge (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); Deluge (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); deluge (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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