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Meaning Of 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.).
n.
Fig.: Anything which overwhelms, or causes great
destruction.
v. t.
To overflow with water; to inundate; to overwhelm.
v. t.
To overwhelm, as with a deluge; to cover; to overspread;
to overpower; to submerge; to destroy; as, the northern nations deluged
the Roman empire with their armies; the land is deluged with woe.