deluge
['dɛljudʒ]
n. 洪, 泛滥

vt. 使泛滥

1. When the snow melts, the mountain stream becomes a deluge.
   融, 山溪流山洪暴.
2. I got caught in the deluge on the way home.
   回路倾盆雨.
3. We advertised the job and were deluged with applications.
   登项广告, 申请书其数.

deluge
[ noun ]

1. an overwhelming number or amount

<noun.quantity>
a flood of requests
a torrent of abuse

2. a heavy rain

<noun.phenomenon>

3. the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land

<noun.phenomenon>
plains fertilized by annual inundations

[ verb ]

1. fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid

<verb.contact> flood inundate swamp
the basement was inundated after the storm
The images flooded his mind

2. charge someone with too many tasks

<verb.communication> flood out overwhelm

3. fill or cover completely, usually with water

<verb.change> inundate submerge

Deluge \Del"uge\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Deluged}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Deluging}.]
1. To overflow with water; to inundate; to overwhelm.

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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Deluge \Del"uge\ (d[e^]l"[-u]j), n. [F. d['e]luge, L. diluvium,
fr. diluere wash away; di- = dis- + luere, equiv. to lavare
to wash. See {Lave}, and cf. {Diluvium}.]
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. ``The deluge of summer.'' --Lowell.

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.
(Apr['e]s moi le d['e]luge.) --Madame de
Pompadour.