Meaning

A great flood or rain..

Definitions by Sense

1. A great flood or rain.
2. An overwhelming amount of something; anything that overwhelms or causes great destruction.
3. (firefighting) A system for flooding or drenching a space, container, or area with water in an emergency to prevent or extinguish a fire.
4. (transitive) To flood with water.
5. (transitive) To overwhelm.

Example Sentences

The deluge continued for hours, drenching the land and slowing traffic to a halt.

The rock concert was a deluge of sound.

A fiery deluge fed / With ever-burning sulphur unconsumed.

The little bird sits at his door in the sun, / Atilt like a blossom among the leaves, / And lets his illumined being o'errun / With the deluge of summer it receives.

deluge system, deluge gun, deluge set

2002, NAVEDTRA, Gunner's Mate 14324A In the event of a restrained firing or canister overtemperature condition, the deluge system sprays cooling water within the canister until the overtemperature condition no longer exists.

On June 8, 2005, a decomposition reaction occurred in the manifold system on a mobile acetylene trailer at Western's Bellville plant that caused the fusible plugs of five cylinders to melt, releasing the products of decomposition. The materials released did not ignite before the deluge system was manually activated, controlling the incident. The incident started when a mobile acetylene trailer, with the cylinder valves open and the manifold fully pressurized, was moved into another bay and the block valve was opened, which initiated an acetylene decomposition reaction.

Some areas were deluged with a month's worth of rain in 24 hours.

Word Forms

• deluges
• deluging
• deluged

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