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noun
2.
a drenching rain; downpour.
3.
anything that overwhelms like a flood: a deluge of mail.
4.
the Deluge. flood (def. 3).
verb (used with object)
5.
to flood; inundate.
6.
to overrun; overwhelm: She was deluged with congratulatory letters.
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Deluging
is always a great word to know.
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| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
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Word Origin & History
deluge
late 14c., from O.Fr. deluge (12c.), earlier deluve, from L. diluvium, from diluere "wash away," from dis- "away" + -luere, comb. form of lavere "to wash" (see lave). The verb is from 1649.
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