Deluged vs. Deluge — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Deluged and Deluge
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Definitions
Deluged➦
A great flood.
Deluge➦
A great flood.
Deluged➦
A heavy downpour.
Deluge➦
A heavy downpour.
Deluged➦
Something that overwhelms as if by a great flood
A deluge of fan mail.
Deluge➦
Something that overwhelms as if by a great flood
A deluge of fan mail.
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Deluged➦
Deluge In the Bible, the great flood that occurred in the time of Noah.
Deluge➦
Deluge In the Bible, the great flood that occurred in the time of Noah.
Deluged➦
To overrun with water; inundate.
Deluge➦
To overrun with water; inundate.
Deluged➦
To overwhelm with a large number or amount; swamp
The press secretary was deluged with requests for information.
Deluge➦
To overwhelm with a large number or amount; swamp
The press secretary was deluged with requests for information.
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Deluged➦
Simple past tense and past participle of deluge
Deluge➦
A great flood or rain.
The deluge continued for hours, drenching the land and slowing traffic to a halt.
Deluge➦
An overwhelming amount of something; anything that overwhelms or causes great destruction.
The rock concert was a deluge of sound.
Deluge➦
(firefighting) A system for flooding or drenching a space, container, or area with water in an emergency to prevent or extinguish a fire.
Deluge➦
(transitive) To flood with water.
Some areas were deluged with a month's worth of rain in 24 hours.
Deluge➦
(transitive) To overwhelm.
After the announcement, they were deluged with requests for more information.
Deluge➦
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.).
Deluge➦
Fig.: Anything which overwhelms, or causes great destruction.
A fiery deluge fedWith ever-burning sulphur unconsumed.
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.
After me the deluge.(Aprés moi le déluge.
Deluge➦
To overflow with water; to inundate; to overwhelm.
The deluged earth would useless grow.
Deluge➦
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.
Deluge➦
An overwhelming number or amount;
A flood of requests
A torrent of abuse
Deluge➦
A heavy rain
Deluge➦
The rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land;
Plains fertilized by annual inundations
Deluge➦
Fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid;
The basement was inundated after the storm
The images flooded his mind
Deluge➦
Charge someone with too many tasks
Deluge➦
Fill or cover completely, usually with water
