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RELATED WORD : noachian deluge

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun Deluge has 3 senses

• deluge(n = noun.quantity) flood, inundation, torrent - an overwhelming number or amount; "a flood of requests"; "a torrent of abuse"
is a kind of batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad
Derived form verb deluge₂

• deluge(n = noun.phenomenon) cloudburst, downpour, pelter, soaker, torrent, waterspout - a heavy rain; Array
is a kind of rain, rainfall
Derived forms verb deluge₃, verb deluge₁

• deluge(n = noun.phenomenon) alluvion, flood, inundation - the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land; "plains fertilized by annual inundations"
is a kind of geological phenomenon
has particulars: debacle, flash flood, flashflood, noachian deluge, noah's flood, noah and the flood, the flood
Derived form verb deluge₃

Verb Deluge has 3 senses

• deluge(v = verb.contact) flood, inundate, swamp - fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid; "the basement was inundated after the storm"; "The images flooded his mind"
is one way to fill, fill up, make full
Derived form noun deluge₂
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something with something

• deluge(v = verb.communication) flood out, overwhelm - charge someone with too many tasks; Array
is one way to burden, charge, saddle
Derived form noun deluge₁
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody with something

• deluge(v = verb.change) inundate, submerge - fill or cover completely, usually with water; Array
is one way to flood
Derived forms noun deluge₃, noun deluge₂
Sample sentence:
The swollen rivers Deluge the area with water

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DEVIL DICTIONARY

Deluge

n. A notable first experiment in baptism which washed away the sins (and sinners) of the world.

THESAURUS

Deluge

Niagara, abound, affusion, alluvion, alluvium, army, aspergation, aspersion, avalanche, baptism, baptize, bath, bathing, be prodigal with, bedewing, brash, burst of rain, bury, cascade, cataclysm, cataract, cloudburst, cluster, cohue, crowd, crush, dampening, damping, dewing, dip, douse, downfall, downflow, downpour, drench, drencher, drown, drowning, duck, dunk, embarras de richesses, engulf, engulfment, enough, extravagance, extravagancy, float, flock, flood, flood the market, flooding, flow on, flush, flux, fresh, freshet, galaxy, gush, gushing rain, heap, heavy rain, horde, hosing, hosing down, host, humidification, immerge, immerse, immersion, inundate, inundation, irrigation, jam, landslide, laving, lavishness, legion, mass, merge, mob, moistening, money to burn, more than enough, multitude, overabundance, overaccumulation, overbounteousness, overbrim, overcome, overcopiousness, overdose, overequip, overflow, overflowing, overfurnish, overlavish, overlavishness, overluxuriance, overmeasure, overmuchness, overnumerousness, overplentifulness, overplenty, overpopulation, overprofusion, overprovender, overprovide, overprovision, overrun, overrunning, oversell, overstock, oversufficiency, oversupply, overwhelm, panoply, plash, plenty, plethora, plunge in water, pour, pour on, pour out, pour over, press, prodigality, rabble, rain, rainburst, rainspout, rainstorm, redundancy, rinsing, river, rout, ruck, run over, scud, sink, slop, slosh, sluice, soak, soaker, soaking rain, sop, souse, sparging, spate, spattering, spill, spill out, spill over, spillage, splashing, splattering, spout, spraying, sprinkling, stream, submerge, submerse, submersion, superabundance, superflux, swamp, swashing, sweep, teem, the Deluge, the Flood, throng, torrent, torrent of rain, washout, waterflood, watering, waterspout, wet, wetting, whelm, whelming

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Redundancy

VB superabound, overabound, know no bounds, swarm, meet one at every turn, creep with, crawl with, bristle with, overflow, run over, flow over, well over, brim over, run riot, overrun, overstock, overlay, overcharge, overdose, overfeed, overburden, overload, overdo, overwhelm, overshoot the mark, surcharge, supersaturate, gorge, glut, load, drench, whelm, inundate, deluge, flood, drug, drug the market, hepatize, choke, cloy, accloy, suffocate, pile up, lay on thick, impregnate with, lavish, send coals to Newcastle, carry coals to Newcastle, carry owls to Athens, teach one's grandmother to suck eggs, pisces natare docere, kill the slain, gild refined gold, gild the lily, butter one's bread on both sides, put butter upon bacon, employ a steam engine to crack a nut, exaggerate, wallow in roll in, remain on one's hands, hang heavy on hand, go a begging.

Assemblage

N assemblage, collection, collocation, colligation, compilation, levy, gathering, ingathering, muster, attroupement, team, concourse, conflux, congregation, contesseration, convergence, meeting, levee, reunion, drawing room, at home, conversazione, assembly, congress, convention, conventicle, gemote, conclave, posse, posse comitatus, Noah's ark, miscellany, collectanea, museum, menagerie, museology, crowd, throng, group, flood, rush, deluge, rabble, mob, press, crush, cohue, horde, body, tribe, crew, gang, knot, squad, band, party, swarm, shoal, school, covey, flock, herd, drove, atajo, bunch, drive, force, mulada, remuda, roundup, array, bevy, galaxy, corps, company, troop, troupe, task force, army, regiment, host, populousness, clan, brotherhood, fraternity, sorority, association, volley, shower, storm, cloud, group, cluster, Pleiades, clump, pencil, set, batch, lot, pack, budget, assortment, bunch, parcel, packet, package, bundle, fascine, fasces, bale, seron, seroon, fagot, wisp, truss, tuft, shock, rick, fardel, stack, sheaf, haycock, fascicle, fascicule, fasciculus, gavel, hattock, stook, accumulation, congeries, heap, lump, pile, rouleau, tissue, mass, pyramid, bing, drift, snowball, snowdrift, acervation, cumulation, glomeration, agglomeration, conglobation, conglomeration, conglomerate, coacervate, coacervation, coagmentation, aggregation, concentration, congestion, omnium gaterum, spicilegium, black hole of Calcutta, quantity, collector, gatherer, whip, whipper in, assembled, closely packed, dense, serried, crowded to suffocation, teeming, swarming, populous, as thick as hops, all of a heap, fasciculated cumulative, the plot thickens, acervatim, tibi seris tibi metis.

Water

N water, serum, serosity, lymph, rheum, diluent, agua, aqua, pani, dilution, maceration, lotion, washing, immersion, humectation, infiltration, spargefaction, affusion, irrigation, douche, balneation, bath, deluge, high water, flood tide, watery, aqueous, aquatic, hydrous, lymphatic, balneal, diluent, drenching, diluted, weak, wet, the waters are out.

VB be watery, reek, add water, water, wet, moisten, dilute, dip, immerse, merge, immerge, submerge, plunge, souse, duck, drown, soak, steep, macerate, pickle, wash, sprinkle, lave, bathe, affuse, splash, swash, douse, drench, dabble, slop, slobber, irrigate, inundate, deluge, syringe, inject, gargle.

River

N river, running water, jet, spirt, spurt, squirt, spout, spray, splash, rush, gush, jet d'eau, sluice, water spout, water fall, cascade, force, foss, lin, linn, ghyll, Niagara, cataract, rapids, white water, catadupe, cataclysm, debacle, inundation, deluge, chute, washout, rain, rainfall, serein, shower, scud, downpour, driving rain, drenching rain, cloudburst, hyetology, hyetography, predominance of Aquarius, reign of St. Swithin, mizzle, drizzle, stillicidum, plash, dropping, falling weather, northeaster, hurricane, typhoon, stream, course, flux, flow, profluence, effluence, defluxion, flowing, current, tide, race, coulee, spring, artesian well, fount, fountain, rill, rivulet, gill, gullet, rillet, streamlet, brooklet, branch, runnel, sike, burn, beck, creek, brook, bayou, stream, river, reach, tributary, geyser, spout, waterspout, body of water, torrent, rapids, flush, flood, swash, spring tide, high tide, full tide, bore, tidal bore, eagre, hygre, fresh, freshet, indraught, reflux, undercurrent, eddy, vortex, gurge, whirlpool, Maelstrom, regurgitation, overflow, confluence, corrivation, wave, billow, surge, swell, ripple, anerythmon gelasma, beach comber, riffle, rollers, ground swell, surf, breakers, white horses, whitecaps, rough sea, heavy sea, high seas, cross sea, long sea, short sea, chopping sea, hydrodynamics, hydraulics, hydraulicostatics, rain gauge, flowmeter, pegology, irrigation, pump, watering pot, watering cart, hydrant, syringe, garden hose, lawn spray, bhisti, mussuk, fluent, diffluent, profluent, affluent, tidal, flowing, meandering, meandry, meandrous, fluvial, fluviatile, streamy, showery, rainy, pluvial, stillicidous, stillatitious, for men may come and men may go but I go on foreve, that old man river, he just keeps rolling along.

VB flow, run, meander, gush, pour, spout, roll, jet, well, issue, drop, drip, dribble, plash, spirtle, trill, trickle, distill, percolate, stream, overflow, inundate, deluge, flow over, splash, swash, guggle, murmur, babble, bubble, purl, gurgle, sputter, spurt, spray, regurgitate, ooze, flow out, rain hard, rain in torrents, rain cats and dogs, rain pitchforks, pour with rain, drizzle, spit, set in, mizzle, flow into, fall into, open into, drain into, discharge itself, disembogue, pour, pour out, shower down, irrigate, drench, spill, splash, stanch, dam, up, obstruct.

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