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Definition of DELUGE

Deluge
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.

Meaning of DELUGE from wikipedia

- Look up Deluge or deluge in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A deluge is a large downpour of rain, often a flood. The Deluge refers to the flood narrative...
- The Deluge was a series of mid-17th-century military campaigns in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. In a wider sense, it applies to the period between...
- A flood myth or a deluge myth is a myth in which a great flood, usually sent by a deity or deities, destroys civilization, often in an act of divine retribution...
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- solar year of 365 days. The "original", Jahwist narrative of the Great Deluge was modest; a w**** of ostensibly non-celestial rain is followed by a forty-day...
- "Après moi, le déluge" (pronounced [apʁɛ mwa lə delyʒ]; lit. 'After me, the flood') is a French expression attributed to King Louis XV of France, or in...
- Deluge BitTorrent Client is a free and open-source, cross-platform BitTorrent client written in Python. Deluge uses a front and back end architecture where...
- The Deluge: The Great War, America and the Remaking of the Global Order, 1916–1931 is a history book by Adam Tooze first published by Allen Lane in 2014...
- A deluge gun, fire monitor, master stream or deck gun is an aimable controllable high-capacity water jet used for manual firefighting or automatic fire...
- Before the Deluge (French: Avant le déluge) is a 1954 French-Italian drama film directed by André Cayatte. It was entered into the 1954 Cannes Film Festival...