deluge

noun

1. A great flood or rain.

   “The deluge continued for hours, drenching the land and slowing traffic to a halt.”

2. An overwhelming amount of something; anything that overwhelms or causes great destruction.

   “The rock concert was a deluge of sound.”

   “A fiery deluge fed / With ever-burning sulphur unconsumed.”

   “The little bird sits at his door in the sun, / Atilt like a blossom among the leaves, / And lets his illumined being o'errun / With the deluge of summer it receives.”

3. A system for flooding or drenching a space, container, or area with water in an emergency to prevent or extinguish a fire.

   “deluge system, deluge gun, deluge set”

   “2002, NAVEDTRA, Gunner's Mate 14324A In the event of a restrained firing or canister overtemperature condition, the deluge system sprays cooling water within the canister until the overtemperature condition no longer exists.”

verb

1. (transitive)To flood with water.

   “Some areas were deluged with a month's worth of rain in 24 hours.”

   “South Yorkshire 2019: The track at Conisbrough is deluged by floodwater. Lines were shut and services were disrupted across Yorkshire and the East Midlands.”

2. (transitive)To overwhelm.

   “After the announcement, they were deluged with requests for more information.”

   “In Women on the Verge all of the characters are deluged by and constantly dealing with the effects and messages of pop culture.”

name

1. The flood taking place in the story of Noah found in the Bible (Genesis) and Qur'an.