noun

1. a great flood
2. a heavy rainfall
3. an overwhelming, floodlike rush of anything a deluge of visitors

Etymology: ME < OFr < L diluvium < dis, off, from + luere, var. of lavare, to lave

transitive verb deluged -·uged′, deluging -·ug′·ing

1. to flood; inundate
2. to overwhelm as with a flood