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n. (quantity) | 1. deluge, flood, inundation, torrent | an overwhelming number or amount.; "a flood of requests"; "a torrent of abuse" |
| ~ good deal, great deal, hatful, lot, mickle, mint, muckle, passel, peck, quite a little, slew, spate, tidy sum, batch, heap, mass, mountain, pile, plenty, raft, stack, wad, deal, flock, pot, mess, sight | (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent.; "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos"; "it must have cost plenty"; "a slew of journalists"; "a wad of money" |
n. (phenomenon) | 2. cloudburst, deluge, downpour, pelter, soaker, torrent, waterspout | a heavy rain. |
| ~ rain, rainfall | water falling in drops from vapor condensed in the atmosphere. |
n. (phenomenon) | 3. alluvion, deluge, flood, inundation | the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land.; "plains fertilized by annual inundations" |
| ~ geological phenomenon | a natural phenomenon involving the structure or composition of the earth. |
| ~ debacle | flooding caused by a tumultuous breakup of ice in a river during the spring or summer. |
| ~ flash flood, flashflood | a sudden local flood of great volume and short duration. |
| ~ noachian deluge, noah's flood, noah and the flood, the flood | (Biblical) the great deluge that is said in the Book of Genesis to have occurred in the time of Noah; it was brought by God upon the earth because of the wickedness of human beings. |
v. (contact) | 4. deluge, flood, inundate, swamp | fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid.; "the basement was inundated after the storm"; "The images flooded his mind" |
| ~ fill, fill up, make full | make full, also in a metaphorical sense.; "fill a container"; "fill the child with pride" |
v. (communication) | 5. deluge, flood out, overwhelm | charge someone with too many tasks. |
| ~ burden, saddle, charge | impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to.; "He charged her with cleaning up all the files over the weekend" |
v. (change) | 6. deluge, inundate, submerge | fill or cover completely, usually with water. |
| ~ flood | cover with liquid, usually water.; "The swollen river flooded the village"; "The broken vein had flooded blood in her eyes" |
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