Definition of deluge

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Deluge (n.) Fig.: Anything which overwhelms, or causes great destruction..

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Overspread :: Overspread (v. t.) To spread over; to cover; as, the deluge overspread the earth..
Antediluvial :: Antediluvial (a.) Before the flood, or Deluge, in Noah's time..
Universality :: Universality (n.) The quality or state of being universal; unlimited extension or application; generality; -- distinguished from particularity; as, the unversality of a proposition; the unversality of sin; the unversality of the Deluge..
Flood :: Flood (v. t.) To overflow; to inundate; to deluge; as, the swollen river flooded the valley..
Second :: Second (a.) Being of the same kind as another that has preceded; another, like a protype; as, a second Cato; a second Troy; a second deluge..
Deluge :: Deluge (n.) Fig.: Anything which overwhelms, or causes great destruction..
Diluvial :: Diluvial (a.) Effected or produced by a flood or deluge of water; -- said of coarse and imperfectly stratified deposits along ancient or existing water courses. Similar unstratified deposits were formed by the agency of ice. The time of deposition has been called the Diluvian epoch.
Clysmian :: Clysmian (a.) Connected with, or related to, the deluge, or to a cataclysm; as, clysmian changes..
Deluge :: Deluge (v. t.) To overflow with water; to inundate; to overwhelm.
Deluged :: Deluged (imp. & p. p.) of Delug.
Inundate :: Inundate (v. t.) To cover with a flood; to overflow; to deluge; to flood; as, the river inundated the town..
Subungual :: Subundation (n.) A flood; a deluge.
Antediluvian :: Antediluvian (n.) One who lived before the Deluge.
Deluge :: Deluge (v. t.) 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..
Cataclysm :: Cataclysm (n.) An extensive overflow or sweeping flood of water; a deluge.
Flood :: Flood (v. i.) A great flow of water; a body of moving water; the flowing stream, as of a river; especially, a body of water, rising, swelling, and overflowing land not usually thus covered; a deluge; a freshet; an inundation..
Diluvialist :: Diluvialist (n.) One who explains geological phenomena by the Noachian deluge.
Ogygian :: Ogygian (a.) Of or pertaining to Ogyges, a mythical king of ancient Attica, or to a great deluge in Attica in his days; hence, primeval; of obscure antiquity..
Diluvian :: Diluvian (a.) Of or pertaining to a deluge, esp. to the Noachian deluge; diluvial; as, of diluvian origin..
Antecedent :: Antecedent (a.) Going before in time; prior; anterior; preceding; as, an event antecedent to the Deluge; an antecedent cause..
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