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Cataclysm :: Cataclysm (n.) An extensive overflow or sweeping flood of water; a deluge.

Flood :: Flood (v. t.) To overflow; to inundate; to deluge; as, the swollen river flooded the valley..

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

Overspread :: Overspread (v. t.) To spread over; to cover; as, the deluge overspread the earth..

Ark :: Ark (n.) The large, chestlike vessel in which Noah and his family were preserved during the Deluge. Gen. vi. Hence: Any place of refuge..

Antecedent :: Antecedent (a.) Going before in time; prior; anterior; preceding; as, an event antecedent to the Deluge; an antecedent cause..

Subungual :: Subundation (n.) A flood; a deluge.

Diluvial :: Diluvial (a.) Of or pertaining to a flood or deluge, esp. to the great deluge in the days of Noah; diluvian..

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.

Deluge :: Deluge (n.) A washing away; an overflowing of the land by water; an inundation; a flood; specifically, The Deluge, the great flood in the days of Noah (Gen. vii.)..

Antediluvian :: Antediluvian (n.) One who lived before the Deluge.

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..

Inundate :: Inundate (v. t.) To cover with a flood; to overflow; to deluge; to flood; as, the river inundated the town..

Diluvian :: Diluvian (a.) Of or pertaining to a deluge, esp. to the Noachian deluge; diluvial; as, of diluvian origin..

Diluvialist :: Diluvialist (n.) One who explains geological phenomena by the Noachian deluge.

Deluge :: Deluge (v. t.) To overflow with water; to inundate; to overwhelm.

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..

Noah :: Noah (n.) A patriarch of Biblical history, in the time of the 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..

Clysmian :: Clysmian (a.) Connected with, or related to, the deluge, or to a cataclysm; as, clysmian changes..

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