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Deluge

Deluge (deluge)
n.(?)
Del"uge
[F. déluge, L. diluvium, fr. diluere wash away; di- = dis- + luere, equiv. to lavare to wash. See Lave, and cf. Diluvium.]
  1. 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.).
  2. Fig.: Anything which overwhelms, or causes great destruction.
    "The deluge of summer." Lowell.

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

    As I grub up some quaint old fragment of a [London] street, or a house, or a shop, or tomb or burial ground, which has still survived in the deluge. F. Harrison.

    After me the deluge.
    (Aprés moi le déluge.)     Madame de Pompadour.

Deluge

Deluge (deluge)
v. t.
Del"uge
  1. To overflow with water] to inundate; to overwhelm.

    The deluged earth would useless grow. Blackmore.

  2. 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.

    At length corruption, like a general flood . . .
    Shall deluge all.     Pope.













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