DELUGE
\dˈɛljuːd͡ʒ], \dˈɛljuːdʒ], \d_ˈɛ_l_j_uː_dʒ]\
Definitions of DELUGE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid; "the basement was inundated after the storm"; "The images flooded his mind"
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charge someone with too many tasks
By Princeton University
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fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid; "the basement was inundated after the storm"; "The images flooded his mind"
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charge someone with too many tasks
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Fig.: Anything which overwhelms, or causes great destruction.
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To overflow with water; to inundate; to overwhelm.
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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.
By Oddity Software
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Fig.: Anything which overwhelms, or causes great destruction.
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To overflow with water; to inundate; to overwhelm.
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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.
By Noah Webster.
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An inundation or flood, especially that of the time of Noah (Genesis vii); a sudden and resistless calamity.
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To overwhelm; to overflow.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A great overflow of water: a flood, esp. that in the days of Noah.
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To inundate: to overwhelm as with water.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald