1. The rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land
   "plains fertilized by annual deluges";
   - flood, inundation, alluvion
    
2. A heavy rainstorm
   "The clouds broke after the heavy deluge";
   - downpour, cloudburst, waterspout, torrent, pelter, soaker, gullywasher [US, informal]
    
3. An overwhelming number or amount
   "a deluge of requests";
   - flood, inundation, torrent

1. Fill or cover completely, usually with water
   "Melting snow deluged the valley";
   - inundate, submerge
    
2. Fill or become beyond capacity with too large a volume of something
   "The images deluged his mind";
   - flood, inundate, swamp
    
3. Charge someone with too many tasks
   "She was delugeed by paperwork";
   - overwhelm, snow under [informal], overload

Derived forms: deluged, deluges, deluging

See also: flood

Type of: batch, bunch [informal], burden, charge, deal, fill, fill up, flock, flood, geological phenomenon, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, lumber [Brit, informal], mass, mess, mickle [archaic], mountain, muckle, passel [US], peck, pile [informal], plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, rain, rainfall, saddle, scad [N. Amer, informal], sight, slew, spate, stack [informal], tidy sum, wad

Encyclopedia: Deluge