Definition of deluge in English:

deluge

noun ˈdɛljuːdʒˈdɛlju(d)ʒ

1A severe flood.
洪水
this may be the worst deluge in living memory
Example sentencesExamples
- The city was on a knife-edge tonight as its flood defences faced their toughest test following the continuing deluge.
- But the scale of last year's flooding surpassed these previous deluges, with 45 square kilometres of land submerged.
- But in the light of devastation caused before the Foss barrier existed - where watermarks on the wall testify to the deluges of 1982, 1947 and 1831 - there was relatively nothing to fear.
- Meanwhile, insurance companies are bracing themselves for multi-million euro claims following the deluge which left scores of homes and businesses flooded.
- It stood in the lowest part of town, near the Town Hall, and like it, must have been flooded in the deluge of 1955.
- Which is good, of course, providing the flow doesn't become a flood, and the flood a mindless deluge.
- The recent deluge has left most cattle farmers in a crisis situation as regards grazing management and silage cutting.
- The recent deluge and the resulting floods have no doubt made many househunters think about what dangers they could encounter when buying a new house.
- At Harrogate, the hosts were put in to bat on a new strip hastily prepared because the intended pitch had been flooded by Friday's deluge.
- Preliminary data suggest this rainfall triggered a 500-year flood deluge.
- But tourist operators at countryside and seaside destinations admitted they had suffered from the deluges of the past few weeks.
- China said its unchecked lumber industry was a primary cause of the 1998 deluge, the country's worst floods since the 1950s.
- Businesses were counting the cost of the deluge as many were flooded for a third time in just six weeks.
- I went outside into a biblical deluge, with no plan beyond having a big kip in the car.
- The supposed height of summer has seen deluge after deluge with floods and misery across the country.
- But after the flood, after the deluge they treated us as partners, not as workers for them, not as slaves, and started to give us knowledge.
- After 30 hours of continuous torrential rain, rivers and streams around Taranaki were struggling to cope with the deluge of water.
- A titanic crash of thunder heralds the return of the darkness and the onset of a truly biblical deluge.
- The deluges also prompted an increase in crop prices.
- That strategy had the support of the city's power brokers and it got all the fuel it needed in 1938, when the worst deluge in Los Angeles history killed 87 people.
Synonyms
flood, flash flood, torrent
British spate
1. 1.1the Deluge The biblical Flood (recorded in Genesis 6–8)
  （《圣经》中的）大洪水（《创世纪》6-8）
  the world appeared to be emerging still from the waters of the Deluge
  Example sentencesExamples
  The Bible certainly seemed to speak historically - Creation, The Deluge, The Tower of Babel - and yet the theologians said these things were myth, or poetry, or allegory.
  Rather, the Deluge resulted from Divine Judgment and was attended by miracles, though many natural processes were also at work during that yearlong event.
  Through catastrophes such as the Deluge or Sodom and Gomorrah, the religious imagination fantasised about the end of the world.
  A proper interpretation of the rocks arid fossils speaks of a global, dynamic, watery catastrophe: the biblical Deluge.
  Many arguments from both the Flood narrative itself, and from later Scriptural references, establish that the Deluge was indeed universal.
  The Bible clearly teaches a literal six-day creation and a global Deluge.
2. 1.2 A heavy fall of rain.
  大雨，暴雨
  a deluge of rain hit the plains
  暴雨肆虐了平原。
  Example sentencesExamples
  It seems very peaceful - we've had deluges of rain.
  A perfect deluge of rain instantly followed, and the roads were quickly flooded.
  The game ended in a deluge of rain and sleet but to the credit of both teams they continued to play positive football to the end.
  And then the heavens opened, releasing a deluge of heavy rain that had all three of us scrambling to be the first back in the house.
  And, when he stood entranced in the eye of the storm, he did not think that the deluge would close over him.
  A deluge of rain on Friday evening led to several games in the Keighley area being abandoned - as the weather once again took its toll.
  The storm, with deluges of rain, sweeps over the mountain and the monsoon reigns over the low lands of Malabar.
  The deluges of rain upon the volcano slopes, which may be augmented by melting ice, help to mobilize ash and debris flows (lahars).
  Anyway, after that little digression, I am pleased to report that we had a deluge of rain here yesterday.
  Move potted plants you want to protect from freezing under the eaves of the house or some other spot where they will be protected from the deluge of winter rains.
  Then down came the deluge and it rained like I have never seen.
  Trees were crashing down around either side of the campsite as hillsides slipped away in the deluge of rain - all in a day's work for a surveyor of the time.
  Sir - A deluge of ‘tropical’ rain for the second time in three years: climate change is a reality we could do without.
  Alas this was not to be, as a deluge of rain descended and the dancing had to be abandoned.
  Hundreds of residents who had suffered the deluge after yesterday's rain welcomed the clear skies today as they set about assessing their loss.
  Their Shiraz variety grapes had to battle to survive after a deluge of 200 mm of rain.
  These were no more than the drops of rain that preceded the deluge.
  This was the first day in the Alps and on the top of Col de Ramaz they had almost three inches of rain when a deluge came down on them for a full forty five minutes.
  Although much of the rest of Scotland was shrouded in mist and heavy rain, the deluge which dampened Aberdeen in the morning had abated long before kick off.
  The April festival has been sunk by an ill-timed deluge of rain.
  Then the final week of May brought a deluge of rain especially in the West.
  Synonyms
  downpour, torrential rain, torrent of rain
  thunderstorm, rainstorm, cloudburst
3. 1.3 A great quantity of something arriving at the same time.
  〈喻〉洪水般涌至
  a deluge of complaints
  汹涌而至的投诉。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The data can be intermittent during transmission opportunities, but when it comes in, it arrives in deluges and it comes in fast.
  Villagers look like they will be losing their main bus service in just over a fortnight, despite a deluge of complaints to the bus company.
  A deluge of email has arrived from people who read one of last week's postings and want to know three reasons why, specifically, the Russians beat us into space but not to the moon.
  Police fielded a deluge of car vandalism complaints from motorists in north and west Wiltshire over Christmas.
  These letters have triggered a deluge of complaints to the watchdog, who seems to be treating them sympathetically, although he's no soft touch.
  Synonyms
  barrage, volley
  flood, torrent, avalanche, stream, storm, shower, cascade, spate, wave, rush, outpouring

verb ˈdɛljuːdʒˈdɛlju(d)ʒ

[with object]

1Overwhelm with a flood.
caravans were deluged by the heavy rains
一辆辆大篷车淹没在暴雨中。
Example sentencesExamples
- Only 18 months after the last floods, their homes and businesses have been deluged again.
- The western regions of the vast central African nation have been deluged by heavy downpours as the rainy season gets into full swing.
- Certainly an impact in the North Sea would deluge all of the coasts in all directions.
- The floods that threatened to deluge the town centre yesterday put paid to virtually all weekend river match action.
- It was proposed by one of the councillors, who said he was finally pushed into action by floods which deluged the town in January, killing three people.
- Recognising that the river was about to burst its banks he alerted the emergency services and moved the coastguard vehicle to the bridge before its hut was deluged.
Synonyms
flood, inundate, engulf, submerge, swamp, drown
1. 1.1 Inundate with a great quantity of something.
  淹没，纷涌
  he has been deluged with offers of work
  许多单位纷涌提出要雇用他。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Since you'll be deluged with advice like that this week, learn to see through the motivations behind it.
  Hard science does a lot better at this - generate interesting results, and you'll be deluged with requests to see the data so that other scientists can replicate it.
  Unfortunately, nobody considered notifying anyone else, and local and state authorities were soon deluged with calls from panicked citizens.
  But here again is one of the major strengths of blogs: if a story is proven false, it's a rare blogger who isn't deluged with emails and comments.
  In another account I am deluged with offers for cheap software.
  An amateur investigator has been deluged with e-mails from conspiracy theorists across the world after posting details of a mid-Essex mystery on a website.
  Talking to publisher friends I gather that they are deluged with manuscripts more than ever before, but I think there is a quality control.
  You know, I'm sure she's been deluged with phone calls, harassing phone calls, attacks, and so forth.
  In spite of those petty quibbles, I'm guessing she's been deluged with responses, for all the reasons I mentioned.
  From a situation where starter homes and apartments were languishing on the market for months, estate agents were suddenly deluged with enquiries.
  There's nothing like a company being deluged with inquiries from media and analysts to force some disclosure to the market.
  The prosecutor's office has been deluged with letters, the vast majority angrily urging that he leave the couple alone.
  After their presentation, the duo were deluged with questions from the children.
  People near and far are deluged with congratulatory messages over the telephones.
  I hope I'm deluged with interesting material from all over the country - especially the swing states, of course.
  Talk to too many sources and the writer is deluged with contrary opinions, none of which converge into something close to reality.
  We should be deluged with statistics, but we aren't.
  ‘We have not been deluged with requests for information so far but we are just a few weeks in so we need to keep an eye on the situation,’ said the spokesman.
  The public is deluged with graphic accounts of horrible and dreadful news delivered both in orally pictorial detail assisted by visual depictions.
  Ultimately, however, it makes for a refreshingly realistic perspective, unlike the phony, manufactured pop culture movies we are deluged with.
  Synonyms
  inundate, overwhelm, overload, overrun, flood, swamp, snow under, engulf
  shower, bombard

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French, variant of diluve, from Latin diluvium, from diluere 'wash away'.

This is from an Old French variant of diluve ‘flood’, from Latin diluvium, from diluere ‘wash away’, also the source of dilute (mid 16th century). The English word antediluvian (mid 17th century) meaning literally ‘before the (biblical) Flood’ is also based on Latin diluvium.

Definition of deluge in US English:

deluge

nounˈdelyo͞o(d)ZHˈdɛlju(d)ʒ

1A severe flood.
洪水
Example sentencesExamples
- China said its unchecked lumber industry was a primary cause of the 1998 deluge, the country's worst floods since the 1950s.
- Which is good, of course, providing the flow doesn't become a flood, and the flood a mindless deluge.
- After 30 hours of continuous torrential rain, rivers and streams around Taranaki were struggling to cope with the deluge of water.
- Businesses were counting the cost of the deluge as many were flooded for a third time in just six weeks.
- The supposed height of summer has seen deluge after deluge with floods and misery across the country.
- A titanic crash of thunder heralds the return of the darkness and the onset of a truly biblical deluge.
- But in the light of devastation caused before the Foss barrier existed - where watermarks on the wall testify to the deluges of 1982, 1947 and 1831 - there was relatively nothing to fear.
- At Harrogate, the hosts were put in to bat on a new strip hastily prepared because the intended pitch had been flooded by Friday's deluge.
- The recent deluge and the resulting floods have no doubt made many househunters think about what dangers they could encounter when buying a new house.
- I went outside into a biblical deluge, with no plan beyond having a big kip in the car.
- But after the flood, after the deluge they treated us as partners, not as workers for them, not as slaves, and started to give us knowledge.
- That strategy had the support of the city's power brokers and it got all the fuel it needed in 1938, when the worst deluge in Los Angeles history killed 87 people.
- The recent deluge has left most cattle farmers in a crisis situation as regards grazing management and silage cutting.
- The city was on a knife-edge tonight as its flood defences faced their toughest test following the continuing deluge.
- But the scale of last year's flooding surpassed these previous deluges, with 45 square kilometres of land submerged.
- The deluges also prompted an increase in crop prices.
- Meanwhile, insurance companies are bracing themselves for multi-million euro claims following the deluge which left scores of homes and businesses flooded.
- Preliminary data suggest this rainfall triggered a 500-year flood deluge.
- It stood in the lowest part of town, near the Town Hall, and like it, must have been flooded in the deluge of 1955.
- But tourist operators at countryside and seaside destinations admitted they had suffered from the deluges of the past few weeks.
Synonyms
flood, flash flood, torrent
1. 1.1the Deluge The biblical Flood (recorded in Genesis 6–8).
  （《圣经》中的）大洪水（《创世纪》6-8）
  Example sentencesExamples
  A proper interpretation of the rocks arid fossils speaks of a global, dynamic, watery catastrophe: the biblical Deluge.
  Rather, the Deluge resulted from Divine Judgment and was attended by miracles, though many natural processes were also at work during that yearlong event.
  The Bible clearly teaches a literal six-day creation and a global Deluge.
  Through catastrophes such as the Deluge or Sodom and Gomorrah, the religious imagination fantasised about the end of the world.
  The Bible certainly seemed to speak historically - Creation, The Deluge, The Tower of Babel - and yet the theologians said these things were myth, or poetry, or allegory.
  Many arguments from both the Flood narrative itself, and from later Scriptural references, establish that the Deluge was indeed universal.
2. 1.2 A heavy fall of rain.
  大雨，暴雨
  a deluge of rain hit the plains
  暴雨肆虐了平原。
  Example sentencesExamples
  And then the heavens opened, releasing a deluge of heavy rain that had all three of us scrambling to be the first back in the house.
  The storm, with deluges of rain, sweeps over the mountain and the monsoon reigns over the low lands of Malabar.
  And, when he stood entranced in the eye of the storm, he did not think that the deluge would close over him.
  A deluge of rain on Friday evening led to several games in the Keighley area being abandoned - as the weather once again took its toll.
  Trees were crashing down around either side of the campsite as hillsides slipped away in the deluge of rain - all in a day's work for a surveyor of the time.
  These were no more than the drops of rain that preceded the deluge.
  Then the final week of May brought a deluge of rain especially in the West.
  The April festival has been sunk by an ill-timed deluge of rain.
  Their Shiraz variety grapes had to battle to survive after a deluge of 200 mm of rain.
  Anyway, after that little digression, I am pleased to report that we had a deluge of rain here yesterday.
  A perfect deluge of rain instantly followed, and the roads were quickly flooded.
  This was the first day in the Alps and on the top of Col de Ramaz they had almost three inches of rain when a deluge came down on them for a full forty five minutes.
  Although much of the rest of Scotland was shrouded in mist and heavy rain, the deluge which dampened Aberdeen in the morning had abated long before kick off.
  The game ended in a deluge of rain and sleet but to the credit of both teams they continued to play positive football to the end.
  Sir - A deluge of ‘tropical’ rain for the second time in three years: climate change is a reality we could do without.
  Hundreds of residents who had suffered the deluge after yesterday's rain welcomed the clear skies today as they set about assessing their loss.
  It seems very peaceful - we've had deluges of rain.
  Alas this was not to be, as a deluge of rain descended and the dancing had to be abandoned.
  Then down came the deluge and it rained like I have never seen.
  The deluges of rain upon the volcano slopes, which may be augmented by melting ice, help to mobilize ash and debris flows (lahars).
  Move potted plants you want to protect from freezing under the eaves of the house or some other spot where they will be protected from the deluge of winter rains.
  Synonyms
  downpour, torrential rain, torrent of rain
3. 1.3 A great quantity of something arriving at the same time.
  〈喻〉洪水般涌至
  a deluge of complaints
  汹涌而至的投诉。
  Example sentencesExamples
  A deluge of email has arrived from people who read one of last week's postings and want to know three reasons why, specifically, the Russians beat us into space but not to the moon.
  Police fielded a deluge of car vandalism complaints from motorists in north and west Wiltshire over Christmas.
  The data can be intermittent during transmission opportunities, but when it comes in, it arrives in deluges and it comes in fast.
  Villagers look like they will be losing their main bus service in just over a fortnight, despite a deluge of complaints to the bus company.
  These letters have triggered a deluge of complaints to the watchdog, who seems to be treating them sympathetically, although he's no soft touch.
  Synonyms
  barrage, volley

verbˈdelyo͞o(d)ZHˈdɛlju(d)ʒ

[with object]usually be deluged

1Inundate with a great quantity of something.
淹没，纷涌
he has been deluged with offers of work
许多单位纷涌提出要雇用他。
Example sentencesExamples
- People near and far are deluged with congratulatory messages over the telephones.
- An amateur investigator has been deluged with e-mails from conspiracy theorists across the world after posting details of a mid-Essex mystery on a website.
- You know, I'm sure she's been deluged with phone calls, harassing phone calls, attacks, and so forth.
- Since you'll be deluged with advice like that this week, learn to see through the motivations behind it.
- I hope I'm deluged with interesting material from all over the country - especially the swing states, of course.
- In spite of those petty quibbles, I'm guessing she's been deluged with responses, for all the reasons I mentioned.
- Hard science does a lot better at this - generate interesting results, and you'll be deluged with requests to see the data so that other scientists can replicate it.
- Ultimately, however, it makes for a refreshingly realistic perspective, unlike the phony, manufactured pop culture movies we are deluged with.
- Unfortunately, nobody considered notifying anyone else, and local and state authorities were soon deluged with calls from panicked citizens.
- We should be deluged with statistics, but we aren't.
- The prosecutor's office has been deluged with letters, the vast majority angrily urging that he leave the couple alone.
- After their presentation, the duo were deluged with questions from the children.
- In another account I am deluged with offers for cheap software.
- But here again is one of the major strengths of blogs: if a story is proven false, it's a rare blogger who isn't deluged with emails and comments.
- From a situation where starter homes and apartments were languishing on the market for months, estate agents were suddenly deluged with enquiries.
- There's nothing like a company being deluged with inquiries from media and analysts to force some disclosure to the market.
- Talking to publisher friends I gather that they are deluged with manuscripts more than ever before, but I think there is a quality control.
- The public is deluged with graphic accounts of horrible and dreadful news delivered both in orally pictorial detail assisted by visual depictions.
- Talk to too many sources and the writer is deluged with contrary opinions, none of which converge into something close to reality.
- ‘We have not been deluged with requests for information so far but we are just a few weeks in so we need to keep an eye on the situation,’ said the spokesman.
Synonyms
inundate, overwhelm, overload, overrun, flood, swamp, snow under, engulf
1. 1.1 Flood.
  淹没
  the country was deluged with rain
  Example sentencesExamples
  They deny that the Flood deluged and destroyed the world.
  Recent heavy rain which deluged much of Europe also hit Bulgaria, causing damage estimated at thousands of leva.
  Track officials opted to cancel the remaining eight races due to track conditions after heavy rains deluged the area in the morning and afternoon.
  Flood victims waded into their homes yesterday to shovel out mud and clean-up crews cleared the debris from streets after heavy rains deluged central and southern Europe.
  They are two of 19 domestic and commercial owners in two adjacent closes which are now deluged whenever it rains.
  And the water-etched scars high up on its banks speak of a torrent each spring when rains deluge the land.
  From 4pm to 9pm Wiltshire Fire Brigade was called out to more than 60 flood-related incidents, including deluged homes and road accidents.
  The last race had a few disconcerting moments as a massive un-seasonal storm crashed in, deluging the area with rain, killing the wind and turning the sea into a mirror.
  Would an ocean impact create a massive tidal wave capable of deluging adjacent coast lines?
  After two months of searing drought - the worst in 50 years - late rains deluged the south of the country mid-October.
  Their vice-captain has had his home flooded after torrential rains deluged the area, causing millions of dollars in damage.
  In February the government announced that one of the major towns deluged by the floods was eligible for only $990,000 for a levee upgrade and construction.
  Also have plenty of spare clothing for the next day if you do get deluged.
  Synonyms
  flood, inundate, engulf, submerge, swamp, drown

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French, variant of diluve, from Latin diluvium, from diluere ‘wash away’.

单词	deluge
释义	Definition of deluge in English: deluge noun ˈdɛljuːdʒˈdɛlju(d)ʒ 1A severe flood. 洪水 this may be the worst deluge in living memory Example sentencesExamples The city was on a knife-edge tonight as its flood defences faced their toughest test following the continuing deluge. But the scale of last year's flooding surpassed these previous deluges, with 45 square kilometres of land submerged. But in the light of devastation caused before the Foss barrier existed - where watermarks on the wall testify to the deluges of 1982, 1947 and 1831 - there was relatively nothing to fear. Meanwhile, insurance companies are bracing themselves for multi-million euro claims following the deluge which left scores of homes and businesses flooded. It stood in the lowest part of town, near the Town Hall, and like it, must have been flooded in the deluge of 1955. Which is good, of course, providing the flow doesn't become a flood, and the flood a mindless deluge. The recent deluge has left most cattle farmers in a crisis situation as regards grazing management and silage cutting. The recent deluge and the resulting floods have no doubt made many househunters think about what dangers they could encounter when buying a new house. At Harrogate, the hosts were put in to bat on a new strip hastily prepared because the intended pitch had been flooded by Friday's deluge. Preliminary data suggest this rainfall triggered a 500-year flood deluge. But tourist operators at countryside and seaside destinations admitted they had suffered from the deluges of the past few weeks. China said its unchecked lumber industry was a primary cause of the 1998 deluge, the country's worst floods since the 1950s. Businesses were counting the cost of the deluge as many were flooded for a third time in just six weeks. I went outside into a biblical deluge, with no plan beyond having a big kip in the car. The supposed height of summer has seen deluge after deluge with floods and misery across the country. But after the flood, after the deluge they treated us as partners, not as workers for them, not as slaves, and started to give us knowledge. After 30 hours of continuous torrential rain, rivers and streams around Taranaki were struggling to cope with the deluge of water. A titanic crash of thunder heralds the return of the darkness and the onset of a truly biblical deluge. The deluges also prompted an increase in crop prices. That strategy had the support of the city's power brokers and it got all the fuel it needed in 1938, when the worst deluge in Los Angeles history killed 87 people. Synonyms flood, flash flood, torrent British spate 1.1the Deluge The biblical Flood (recorded in Genesis 6–8) （《圣经》中的）大洪水（《创世纪》6-8） the world appeared to be emerging still from the waters of the Deluge Example sentencesExamples The Bible certainly seemed to speak historically - Creation, The Deluge, The Tower of Babel - and yet the theologians said these things were myth, or poetry, or allegory. Rather, the Deluge resulted from Divine Judgment and was attended by miracles, though many natural processes were also at work during that yearlong event. Through catastrophes such as the Deluge or Sodom and Gomorrah, the religious imagination fantasised about the end of the world. A proper interpretation of the rocks arid fossils speaks of a global, dynamic, watery catastrophe: the biblical Deluge. Many arguments from both the Flood narrative itself, and from later Scriptural references, establish that the Deluge was indeed universal. The Bible clearly teaches a literal six-day creation and a global Deluge. 1.2 A heavy fall of rain. 大雨，暴雨 a deluge of rain hit the plains 暴雨肆虐了平原。 Example sentencesExamples It seems very peaceful - we've had deluges of rain. A perfect deluge of rain instantly followed, and the roads were quickly flooded. The game ended in a deluge of rain and sleet but to the credit of both teams they continued to play positive football to the end. And then the heavens opened, releasing a deluge of heavy rain that had all three of us scrambling to be the first back in the house. And, when he stood entranced in the eye of the storm, he did not think that the deluge would close over him. A deluge of rain on Friday evening led to several games in the Keighley area being abandoned - as the weather once again took its toll. The storm, with deluges of rain, sweeps over the mountain and the monsoon reigns over the low lands of Malabar. The deluges of rain upon the volcano slopes, which may be augmented by melting ice, help to mobilize ash and debris flows (lahars). Anyway, after that little digression, I am pleased to report that we had a deluge of rain here yesterday. Move potted plants you want to protect from freezing under the eaves of the house or some other spot where they will be protected from the deluge of winter rains. Then down came the deluge and it rained like I have never seen. Trees were crashing down around either side of the campsite as hillsides slipped away in the deluge of rain - all in a day's work for a surveyor of the time. Sir - A deluge of ‘tropical’ rain for the second time in three years: climate change is a reality we could do without. Alas this was not to be, as a deluge of rain descended and the dancing had to be abandoned. Hundreds of residents who had suffered the deluge after yesterday's rain welcomed the clear skies today as they set about assessing their loss. Their Shiraz variety grapes had to battle to survive after a deluge of 200 mm of rain. These were no more than the drops of rain that preceded the deluge. This was the first day in the Alps and on the top of Col de Ramaz they had almost three inches of rain when a deluge came down on them for a full forty five minutes. Although much of the rest of Scotland was shrouded in mist and heavy rain, the deluge which dampened Aberdeen in the morning had abated long before kick off. The April festival has been sunk by an ill-timed deluge of rain. Then the final week of May brought a deluge of rain especially in the West. Synonyms downpour, torrential rain, torrent of rain thunderstorm, rainstorm, cloudburst 1.3 A great quantity of something arriving at the same time. 〈喻〉洪水般涌至 a deluge of complaints 汹涌而至的投诉。 Example sentencesExamples The data can be intermittent during transmission opportunities, but when it comes in, it arrives in deluges and it comes in fast. Villagers look like they will be losing their main bus service in just over a fortnight, despite a deluge of complaints to the bus company. A deluge of email has arrived from people who read one of last week's postings and want to know three reasons why, specifically, the Russians beat us into space but not to the moon. Police fielded a deluge of car vandalism complaints from motorists in north and west Wiltshire over Christmas. These letters have triggered a deluge of complaints to the watchdog, who seems to be treating them sympathetically, although he's no soft touch. Synonyms barrage, volley flood, torrent, avalanche, stream, storm, shower, cascade, spate, wave, rush, outpouring verb ˈdɛljuːdʒˈdɛlju(d)ʒ [with object] 1Overwhelm with a flood. caravans were deluged by the heavy rains 一辆辆大篷车淹没在暴雨中。 Example sentencesExamples Only 18 months after the last floods, their homes and businesses have been deluged again. The western regions of the vast central African nation have been deluged by heavy downpours as the rainy season gets into full swing. Certainly an impact in the North Sea would deluge all of the coasts in all directions. The floods that threatened to deluge the town centre yesterday put paid to virtually all weekend river match action. It was proposed by one of the councillors, who said he was finally pushed into action by floods which deluged the town in January, killing three people. Recognising that the river was about to burst its banks he alerted the emergency services and moved the coastguard vehicle to the bridge before its hut was deluged. Synonyms flood, inundate, engulf, submerge, swamp, drown 1.1 Inundate with a great quantity of something. 淹没，纷涌 he has been deluged with offers of work 许多单位纷涌提出要雇用他。 Example sentencesExamples Since you'll be deluged with advice like that this week, learn to see through the motivations behind it. Hard science does a lot better at this - generate interesting results, and you'll be deluged with requests to see the data so that other scientists can replicate it. Unfortunately, nobody considered notifying anyone else, and local and state authorities were soon deluged with calls from panicked citizens. But here again is one of the major strengths of blogs: if a story is proven false, it's a rare blogger who isn't deluged with emails and comments. In another account I am deluged with offers for cheap software. An amateur investigator has been deluged with e-mails from conspiracy theorists across the world after posting details of a mid-Essex mystery on a website. Talking to publisher friends I gather that they are deluged with manuscripts more than ever before, but I think there is a quality control. You know, I'm sure she's been deluged with phone calls, harassing phone calls, attacks, and so forth. In spite of those petty quibbles, I'm guessing she's been deluged with responses, for all the reasons I mentioned. From a situation where starter homes and apartments were languishing on the market for months, estate agents were suddenly deluged with enquiries. There's nothing like a company being deluged with inquiries from media and analysts to force some disclosure to the market. The prosecutor's office has been deluged with letters, the vast majority angrily urging that he leave the couple alone. After their presentation, the duo were deluged with questions from the children. People near and far are deluged with congratulatory messages over the telephones. I hope I'm deluged with interesting material from all over the country - especially the swing states, of course. Talk to too many sources and the writer is deluged with contrary opinions, none of which converge into something close to reality. We should be deluged with statistics, but we aren't. ‘We have not been deluged with requests for information so far but we are just a few weeks in so we need to keep an eye on the situation,’ said the spokesman. The public is deluged with graphic accounts of horrible and dreadful news delivered both in orally pictorial detail assisted by visual depictions. Ultimately, however, it makes for a refreshingly realistic perspective, unlike the phony, manufactured pop culture movies we are deluged with. Synonyms inundate, overwhelm, overload, overrun, flood, swamp, snow under, engulf shower, bombard Origin Late Middle English: from Old French, variant of diluve, from Latin diluvium, from diluere 'wash away'. This is from an Old French variant of diluve ‘flood’, from Latin diluvium, from diluere ‘wash away’, also the source of dilute (mid 16th century). The English word antediluvian (mid 17th century) meaning literally ‘before the (biblical) Flood’ is also based on Latin diluvium. Definition of deluge in US English: deluge nounˈdelyo͞o(d)ZHˈdɛlju(d)ʒ 1A severe flood. 洪水 Example sentencesExamples China said its unchecked lumber industry was a primary cause of the 1998 deluge, the country's worst floods since the 1950s. Which is good, of course, providing the flow doesn't become a flood, and the flood a mindless deluge. After 30 hours of continuous torrential rain, rivers and streams around Taranaki were struggling to cope with the deluge of water. Businesses were counting the cost of the deluge as many were flooded for a third time in just six weeks. The supposed height of summer has seen deluge after deluge with floods and misery across the country. A titanic crash of thunder heralds the return of the darkness and the onset of a truly biblical deluge. But in the light of devastation caused before the Foss barrier existed - where watermarks on the wall testify to the deluges of 1982, 1947 and 1831 - there was relatively nothing to fear. At Harrogate, the hosts were put in to bat on a new strip hastily prepared because the intended pitch had been flooded by Friday's deluge. The recent deluge and the resulting floods have no doubt made many househunters think about what dangers they could encounter when buying a new house. I went outside into a biblical deluge, with no plan beyond having a big kip in the car. But after the flood, after the deluge they treated us as partners, not as workers for them, not as slaves, and started to give us knowledge. That strategy had the support of the city's power brokers and it got all the fuel it needed in 1938, when the worst deluge in Los Angeles history killed 87 people. The recent deluge has left most cattle farmers in a crisis situation as regards grazing management and silage cutting. The city was on a knife-edge tonight as its flood defences faced their toughest test following the continuing deluge. But the scale of last year's flooding surpassed these previous deluges, with 45 square kilometres of land submerged. The deluges also prompted an increase in crop prices. Meanwhile, insurance companies are bracing themselves for multi-million euro claims following the deluge which left scores of homes and businesses flooded. Preliminary data suggest this rainfall triggered a 500-year flood deluge. It stood in the lowest part of town, near the Town Hall, and like it, must have been flooded in the deluge of 1955. But tourist operators at countryside and seaside destinations admitted they had suffered from the deluges of the past few weeks. Synonyms flood, flash flood, torrent 1.1the Deluge The biblical Flood (recorded in Genesis 6–8). （《圣经》中的）大洪水（《创世纪》6-8） Example sentencesExamples A proper interpretation of the rocks arid fossils speaks of a global, dynamic, watery catastrophe: the biblical Deluge. Rather, the Deluge resulted from Divine Judgment and was attended by miracles, though many natural processes were also at work during that yearlong event. The Bible clearly teaches a literal six-day creation and a global Deluge. Through catastrophes such as the Deluge or Sodom and Gomorrah, the religious imagination fantasised about the end of the world. The Bible certainly seemed to speak historically - Creation, The Deluge, The Tower of Babel - and yet the theologians said these things were myth, or poetry, or allegory. Many arguments from both the Flood narrative itself, and from later Scriptural references, establish that the Deluge was indeed universal. 1.2 A heavy fall of rain. 大雨，暴雨 a deluge of rain hit the plains 暴雨肆虐了平原。 Example sentencesExamples And then the heavens opened, releasing a deluge of heavy rain that had all three of us scrambling to be the first back in the house. The storm, with deluges of rain, sweeps over the mountain and the monsoon reigns over the low lands of Malabar. And, when he stood entranced in the eye of the storm, he did not think that the deluge would close over him. A deluge of rain on Friday evening led to several games in the Keighley area being abandoned - as the weather once again took its toll. Trees were crashing down around either side of the campsite as hillsides slipped away in the deluge of rain - all in a day's work for a surveyor of the time. These were no more than the drops of rain that preceded the deluge. Then the final week of May brought a deluge of rain especially in the West. The April festival has been sunk by an ill-timed deluge of rain. Their Shiraz variety grapes had to battle to survive after a deluge of 200 mm of rain. Anyway, after that little digression, I am pleased to report that we had a deluge of rain here yesterday. A perfect deluge of rain instantly followed, and the roads were quickly flooded. This was the first day in the Alps and on the top of Col de Ramaz they had almost three inches of rain when a deluge came down on them for a full forty five minutes. Although much of the rest of Scotland was shrouded in mist and heavy rain, the deluge which dampened Aberdeen in the morning had abated long before kick off. The game ended in a deluge of rain and sleet but to the credit of both teams they continued to play positive football to the end. Sir - A deluge of ‘tropical’ rain for the second time in three years: climate change is a reality we could do without. Hundreds of residents who had suffered the deluge after yesterday's rain welcomed the clear skies today as they set about assessing their loss. It seems very peaceful - we've had deluges of rain. Alas this was not to be, as a deluge of rain descended and the dancing had to be abandoned. Then down came the deluge and it rained like I have never seen. The deluges of rain upon the volcano slopes, which may be augmented by melting ice, help to mobilize ash and debris flows (lahars). Move potted plants you want to protect from freezing under the eaves of the house or some other spot where they will be protected from the deluge of winter rains. Synonyms downpour, torrential rain, torrent of rain 1.3 A great quantity of something arriving at the same time. 〈喻〉洪水般涌至 a deluge of complaints 汹涌而至的投诉。 Example sentencesExamples A deluge of email has arrived from people who read one of last week's postings and want to know three reasons why, specifically, the Russians beat us into space but not to the moon. Police fielded a deluge of car vandalism complaints from motorists in north and west Wiltshire over Christmas. The data can be intermittent during transmission opportunities, but when it comes in, it arrives in deluges and it comes in fast. Villagers look like they will be losing their main bus service in just over a fortnight, despite a deluge of complaints to the bus company. These letters have triggered a deluge of complaints to the watchdog, who seems to be treating them sympathetically, although he's no soft touch. Synonyms barrage, volley verbˈdelyo͞o(d)ZHˈdɛlju(d)ʒ [with object]usually be deluged 1Inundate with a great quantity of something. 淹没，纷涌 he has been deluged with offers of work 许多单位纷涌提出要雇用他。 Example sentencesExamples People near and far are deluged with congratulatory messages over the telephones. An amateur investigator has been deluged with e-mails from conspiracy theorists across the world after posting details of a mid-Essex mystery on a website. You know, I'm sure she's been deluged with phone calls, harassing phone calls, attacks, and so forth. Since you'll be deluged with advice like that this week, learn to see through the motivations behind it. I hope I'm deluged with interesting material from all over the country - especially the swing states, of course. In spite of those petty quibbles, I'm guessing she's been deluged with responses, for all the reasons I mentioned. Hard science does a lot better at this - generate interesting results, and you'll be deluged with requests to see the data so that other scientists can replicate it. Ultimately, however, it makes for a refreshingly realistic perspective, unlike the phony, manufactured pop culture movies we are deluged with. Unfortunately, nobody considered notifying anyone else, and local and state authorities were soon deluged with calls from panicked citizens. We should be deluged with statistics, but we aren't. The prosecutor's office has been deluged with letters, the vast majority angrily urging that he leave the couple alone. After their presentation, the duo were deluged with questions from the children. In another account I am deluged with offers for cheap software. But here again is one of the major strengths of blogs: if a story is proven false, it's a rare blogger who isn't deluged with emails and comments. From a situation where starter homes and apartments were languishing on the market for months, estate agents were suddenly deluged with enquiries. There's nothing like a company being deluged with inquiries from media and analysts to force some disclosure to the market. Talking to publisher friends I gather that they are deluged with manuscripts more than ever before, but I think there is a quality control. The public is deluged with graphic accounts of horrible and dreadful news delivered both in orally pictorial detail assisted by visual depictions. Talk to too many sources and the writer is deluged with contrary opinions, none of which converge into something close to reality. ‘We have not been deluged with requests for information so far but we are just a few weeks in so we need to keep an eye on the situation,’ said the spokesman. Synonyms inundate, overwhelm, overload, overrun, flood, swamp, snow under, engulf 1.1 Flood. 淹没 the country was deluged with rain Example sentencesExamples They deny that the Flood deluged and destroyed the world. Recent heavy rain which deluged much of Europe also hit Bulgaria, causing damage estimated at thousands of leva. Track officials opted to cancel the remaining eight races due to track conditions after heavy rains deluged the area in the morning and afternoon. Flood victims waded into their homes yesterday to shovel out mud and clean-up crews cleared the debris from streets after heavy rains deluged central and southern Europe. They are two of 19 domestic and commercial owners in two adjacent closes which are now deluged whenever it rains. And the water-etched scars high up on its banks speak of a torrent each spring when rains deluge the land. From 4pm to 9pm Wiltshire Fire Brigade was called out to more than 60 flood-related incidents, including deluged homes and road accidents. The last race had a few disconcerting moments as a massive un-seasonal storm crashed in, deluging the area with rain, killing the wind and turning the sea into a mirror. Would an ocean impact create a massive tidal wave capable of deluging adjacent coast lines? After two months of searing drought - the worst in 50 years - late rains deluged the south of the country mid-October. Their vice-captain has had his home flooded after torrential rains deluged the area, causing millions of dollars in damage. In February the government announced that one of the major towns deluged by the floods was eligible for only $990,000 for a levee upgrade and construction. Also have plenty of spare clothing for the next day if you do get deluged. Synonyms flood, inundate, engulf, submerge, swamp, drown Origin Late Middle English: from Old French, variant of diluve, from Latin diluvium, from diluere ‘wash away’.
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