deluged

Variant of deluge

noun

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

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

transitive verb deluged, deluging

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