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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | downpour, flood of something |
| Synonyms: | avalanche, barrage, cataclysm, cataract, drencher, flux, inundation, niagara, overflowing, overrunning, pour, rush, spate, torrent |
| Main Entry: | deluge |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | overwhelm |
| Synonyms: | abound, crowd, engulf, flood, glut, inundate, overcome, overcrowd, overload, overrun, oversupply, snow under, snow*, swamp, teem |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | avalanche |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | falling large mass; sudden rush of large quantity |
| Synonyms: | barrage, deluge, flood, inundation, landslide, landslip, snowslide, torrent |
| Notes: | avalanche means literally 'a gulp, something swallowed' from French avaler 'to swallow' and Italian lava 'torrent' and refers to snow, rocks, or other debris coming down a mountainside - whereas a landslide is an entire mountainside coming down |
Example Sentences
- Record number of voters expected to deluge polls.
- Capital-hungry companies deluge potential investors with information in an effort to create demand for their shares.
- The deluge was the second flood in what is now set to be the wettest summer recorded.
| Main Entry: | barrage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | profusion of something |
| Synonyms: | assault, attack, blast, bombardment, burst, deluge, hail, mass, onslaught, plethora, rain, shower, storm, stream, surge, torrent |
| Main Entry: | cascade |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something falling, especially water |
| Synonyms: | avalanche, cataract, chute, deluge, downrush, falls, flood, force, fountain, outpouring, precipitation, rapids, shower, spout, torrent, watercourse, waterfall |
| Main Entry: | cataclysm |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disaster |
| Synonyms: | calamity, cataract, catastrophe, collapse, convulsion, crunch, curtains, debacle, deluge, disturbance, double trouble, flood, flooding, holy mess, inundation, misadventure, ruin, torrent, tragedy, unholy mess, upheaval, waterloo, woe |
| Antonyms: | boon, good fortune, happiness, miracle, wonder |
| Main Entry: | crowd |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | large assembly |
| Synonyms: | army, array, blowout, bunch, cattle, circle, clique, cloud, cluster, company, concourse, confluence, conflux, congeries, congregation, coterie, crew, crush, deluge, drove, faction, flock, flood, gaggle, great unwashed, group, herd, horde, host, jam, legion, lot, mass, masses, meet, mob, multitude, muster, organization, pack, party, people, posse, press, rabble, rank and file, scores, sellout, set, stream, surge, swarm, throng, troupe, tumult |
| Main Entry: | crowd |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cram, press into area |
| Synonyms: | bear, bunch, bundle, chock, cluster, congest, congregate, crush, deluge, elbow, flock, gather, huddle, jam, jam-pack, justle, mass, muster, overcrowd, pack, pack 'em in, pack like sardines, pile, push, ram, sardine, shove, squash, squeeze, squish, stream, surge, swamp, swarm, throng, top off, troop |
| Antonyms: | abandon, leave, retreat |
| Main Entry: | douse |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | drench, extinguish with liquid |
| Synonyms: | blow out, deluge, drown, duck, dunk, immerse, plunge, put out, quench, saturate, slop, slosh, smother, snuff, snuff out, soak, sop, souse, spatter, splash, splatter, squench, steep, submerge, submerse, wet |
| Antonyms: | dry |
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