Definitions of deluge

1. To overflow with water; to inundate; to overwhelm.

2. To overwhelm, as with a deluge; to cover; to overspread; to overpower; to submerge; to destroy; as, the northern nations deluged the Roman empire with their armies; the land is deluged with woe.

3. To overwhelm; to overflow.

4. To inundate: to overwhelm as with water.

5. To inundate; overflow.

6. To overwhelm with water; inundate.

7. fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid; " the basement was inundated after the storm"; " The images flooded his mind"

8. charge someone with too many tasks

9. To overflow with water; to drench; to overrun, overwhelm, and sweep away.

10. Fig.: Anything which overwhelms, or causes great destruction.

11. An inundation or flood, especially that of the time of Noah ( Genesis vii); a sudden and resistless calamity.

12. A great overflow of water: a flood, esp. that in the days of Noah.

13. A flood; inundation.

14. A great flood or overflow of water, specially that of Noah; a sweeping or overwhelming calamity.

15. A great flood; an inundation; an overwhelming calamity; the great flood of Noah.