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deluge

noun as in downpour, flood of something

verb as in inundate with water

verb as in overwhelm

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Example Sentences

Unfortunately, the deluge of details weighs the book down in parts.

Divorce ensued, along with a deluge of humiliating media coverage.

The deluge comes from the ceiling, where excess rainwater has worked its way into the subway car from outside.

As Barbara Walters might say—that is, if she were echoing French King Louis XV—“Apres moi, le deluge.”

Meanwhile, the deluge of rain continues, in fits and starts.

So the three Babcocks departed, and the silence which succeeded her deluge of words was soothing to her hosts beyond expression.

Crash went the collection of literature, and Welcome fell back on the floor of the stall, half-covered by a deluge of books.

There were only about four hundred years between the Deluge and the period at which we fix Abraham's journey into Egypt.

Then the Jew would have displayed his ten generations, down to the time of Noah, and the secret of the universal deluge.

And so they were caught fairly and squarely by the deluge that swept upon them with a bewildering suddenness.

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On this page you'll find 115 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to deluge, such as: avalanche, barrage, cataclysm, inundation, spate, and torrent.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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