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To deluge is to flood or to overwhelm someone with anything. (verb)
- An example of deluge is to have a massive amount of rain fall on a roof in a short period of time.
- When you give someone massive amounts of paperwork to complete, this is an example of deluge.
A deluge is a flood or a massive amount of something that all arrives at the same time. (noun)
- An example of a deluge is a flood caused by a huge amount of rainfall in one day.
- An example of a deluge is when you are given 30 books of information to review all at once on a simple subject.
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