Deluge

Definition of Deluge

Del´uge Pronunciation: dĕl´ũj

n.	1.	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.).
	2.	Fig.: Anything which overwhelms, or causes great destruction. A fiery deluge fed With ever-burning sulphur unconsumed. - Milton. As I grub up some quaint old fragment of a [London] street, or a house, or a shop, or tomb or burial ground, which has still survived in the deluge. - F. Harrison. After me the deluge. (Aprés moi le déluge. - Madame de Pompadour.
v. t.	1.	To overflow with water; to inundate; to overwhelm. [imp. & p. p. Deluged ; p. pr. & vb. n. Deluging.] The deluged earth would useless grow. - Blackmore.
	2.	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. At length corruption, like a general flood . . . Shall deluge all. - Pope.

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