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1. An overwhelming number or amount
   "a deluge of requests";
   - flood, inundation, torrent
    
2. A heavy rain
   "The clouds broke after the heavy deluge";
   - downpour, cloudburst, waterspout, torrent, pelter, soaker, gullywasher [US, informal]
    
3. The rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land
   "plains fertilized by annual deluges";
   - flood, inundation, alluvion

1. Fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid
   "The images deluged his mind";
   - flood, inundate, swamp
    
2. Charge someone with too many tasks
   - overwhelm, flood out
    
3. Fill or cover completely, usually with water
   - inundate, submerge

Derived forms: deluged, deluges, deluging

See also: flood in

Type of: batch, bunch [informal], burden, charge, deal, fill, fill up, flock, flood, geological phenomenon, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, lumber [Brit, informal], mass, mess, mickle [archaic], mint, mountain, muckle, passel [US], peck, pile [informal], plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, rain, rainfall, saddle, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad

Encyclopedia: Deluge