- (n.) Fig.: Anything which overwhelms or causes great destruction.
- (v.t.) To overflow with water; to inundate; to overwhelm.
- (n.) 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.).
- (v.t.) 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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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