deluge
洪水,大洪水,洪灾,洪水泛滥
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Definitions
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- : a great flood of water; inundation; flood.
- : a drenching rain; downpour.
- : anything that overwhelms like a flood: a deluge of mail.
- : the Deluge. flood.
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del·uged, del·ug·ing.
- : to flood; inundate.
- : to overrun; overwhelm: She was deluged with congratulatory letters.
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Examples
Official data of damages to hog inventory have yet to be released, but videos and photos of dead pigs and flooded pens suggest farms did not escape the deluge.
The deluge of requests effectively causes the site to shut down.
It also comes amid a deluge of misinformation on the various platforms, with politicians including the President trying to discredit mail-in voting.
Because the deluge of technical reports from human rights groups, the WhatsApp lawsuit, and increasing governmental scrutiny threaten NSO’s status quo.
Coronavirus has caused a data deluge, and not all of the information is as accurate, objective, or up-to-date as it seems.
Unfortunately, the deluge of details weighs the book down in parts.
Divorce ensued, along with a deluge of humiliating media coverage.
The deluge comes from the ceiling, where excess rainwater has worked its way into the subway car from outside.
As Barbara Walters might say—that is, if she were echoing French King Louis XV—“Apres moi, le deluge.”
Meanwhile, the deluge of rain continues, in fits and starts.
So the three Babcocks departed, and the silence which succeeded her deluge of words was soothing to her hosts beyond expression.