1. (n.) A washing away; an inundation; a flood\; specifically, The Deluge, the great flood in the days of Noah (Gen. vii.).

2. (n.) Fig.: Anything which overwhelms, or causes great destruction.

3. (v. t.) To overflow with water; to inundate; to overwhelm.

4. (v. t.) 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.

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