| NOUN | quantity | deluge, flood, inundation, torrent | an overwhelming number or amount |
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| phenomenon | deluge, downpour, cloudburst, waterspout, torrent, pelter, soaker | a heavy rain | |
| phenomenon | deluge, flood, inundation, alluvion | the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land | |
| VERB | contact | deluge, flood, inundate, swamp | fill quickly beyond capacity |
| communication | deluge, overwhelm, flood out | charge someone with too many tasks | |
| change | deluge, inundate, submerge | fill or cover completely, usually with water |
| Sounds | deh'lyuwjh | |
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| Rhymes | centrifuge ... subterfuge: 8 rhymes with uwjh... | |
| Meaning | An overwhelming number or amount. | |
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| Synonyms | flood, inundation, torrent | |
| Broader | batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad | (often followed by 'of') a large number or amount or extent |
| Spanish | diluvio, inundación | |
| Catalan | diluvi, inundació | |
| Verbs | deluge | charge someone with too many tasks |
| Meaning | A heavy rain. | |
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| Synonyms | downpour, cloudburst, waterspout, torrent, pelter, soaker | |
| Broader | rain, rainfall | water falling in drops from vapor condensed in the atmosphere |
| Spanish | aguacero, chaparrada, chaparrón, chubasco, diluvio, nubada, pelter, torrente, turbión | |
| Catalan | aiguat, bàtec, diluvi, ruixat, torrent, xàfec | |
| Adjectives | diluvian, diluvial | of or connected with a deluge |
| Verbs | deluge | fill or cover completely, usually with water |
| deluge | fill quickly beyond capacity | |
| Meaning | The rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land. | |
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| Synonyms | flood, inundation, alluvion | |
| Narrower | Noah's flood, Noachian deluge, Noah and the Flood, the Flood | (Biblical) the great deluge that is said in the Book of Genesis to have occurred in the time of Noah |
| debacle | flooding caused by a tumultuous breakup of ice in a river during the spring or summer | |
| flash flood, flashflood | A sudden local flood of great volume and short duration | |
| Broader | geological phenomenon | A natural phenomenon involving the structure or composition of the earth |
| Spanish | aluvión, avalancha, avenida, diluvio, inundación | |
| Catalan | diluvi, inundació | |
| Verbs | deluge | fill or cover completely, usually with water |
| Meaning | Fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid / liquid. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s something with something | |
| Synonyms | flood, inundate, swamp | |
| Broader | fill, fill up, make full | make full, also in a metaphorical sense |
| Spanish | inundar | |
| Catalan | inundar | |
| Nouns | deluge | a heavy rain |
| Meaning | Charge someone with too many tasks. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody; Somebody ----s somebody with something | |
| Synonyms | overwhelm, flood out | |
| Broader | charge, saddle, burden | impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to |
| Spanish | abrumar, agobiar | |
| Catalan | agobiar | |
| Nouns | deluge | an overwhelming number or amount |
| Meaning | Fill or cover completely, usually with water. | |
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| Pattern | Something ----s something | |
| Model | The swollen rivers deluge the area with water | |
| Synonyms | inundate, submerge | |
| Broader | flood | Cover with liquid / liquid, usually water |
| Spanish | anegar, inundar | |
| Catalan | inundar | |
| Nouns | deluge | a heavy rain |
| deluge | the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land | |
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