Deluge meaning

Noun: deluge

Pronunciation: (del-yooj)

Deluge meaning:

• A heavy rain or an overwhelming number or amount.
• A situation in which a large area of land becomes completely covered with water.
• The rising of  a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land.

Synonyms: flood, downpour, cloudburst, inundation, alluvion

Quotations: Francis Bacon, Sr. – Out of monuments, names, words, proverbs, traditions, private records and evidences, fragments of stories, passages of books, and the like, we do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time.

Horace Mann – Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge.

William Makepeace Thackeray  – She looks so haughty that I should have thought her a princess at the very least, with a pedigree reaching as far back as the Deluge. But this lady was no better born than many other ladies who give themselves airs; and all sensible people laughed at her absurd pretensions.

Samuel Johnson – He that suffers the slightest breach in his morality can seldom tell what shall enter it, or how wide it shall be made; when a passage is open, the influx of corruption is every moment wearing down opposition, and by slow degrees deluges the heart.

Sample sentences:

• The clouds broke after  heavy deluge.
• The images deluged his mind.
• We have received a deluge of requests from the customers.
• There are plains fertilized by annual deluges around this coastal line.
• They are going to be deluged.