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The flood taking place in the story of Noah found in the Bible (Genesis) and Qur'an.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: Abrahamic religion
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: Great Flood
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A great flood or rain.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Antonyms: none provided
noun
An overwhelming amount of something; anything that overwhelms or causes great destruction.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: figuratively
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A system for flooding or drenching a space, container, or area with water in an emergency to prevent or extinguish a fire.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: firefighting, government
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To flood with water.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To overwhelm.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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Antonyms: none provided
noun
the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: flood, inundation, alluvion
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: geological phenomenon
Narrower terms: debacle, flash flood, flashflood, Noah's flood, Noachian deluge, Noah and the Flood, the Flood
noun
a heavy rain
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: downpour, cloudburst, waterspout, torrent, pelter, soaker
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: rain, rainfall
noun
an overwhelming number or amount
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: flood, inundation, torrent
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: 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
verb
fill or cover completely, usually with water
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: inundate, submerge
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: flood
verb
charge someone with too many tasks
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: overwhelm, flood out
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: charge, saddle, burden
verb
fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: flood, inundate, swamp
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: fill, fill up, make full
History
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dwóh1 Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is- Proto-Italic *dis- Latin dis- Proto-Indo-European *lewh3-der. Proto-Italic *lowō Latin lavō Latin dīluō Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -ium Latin dīluvium Old French delugebor. Middle English deluge English deluge From Middle English deluge, from Old French deluge, alteration of earlier deluvie, from Latin dīluvium, from dīluō (“wash away”). Doublet of diluvium.
Across languages
136 source translations are retained for this English entry.
