All deluge synonyms
delΒ·uge
D d noun deluge
- inundation β to flood; cover or overspread with water; deluge.
- spate β a sudden, almost overwhelming, outpouring: a spate of angry words.
- avalanche β An avalanche is a large mass of snow that falls down the side of a mountain.
- barrage β A barrage is continuous firing on an area with large guns and tanks.
- cataclysm β A cataclysm is an event that causes great change or harm.
- torrent β a stream of water flowing with great rapidity and violence.
- rush β to move, act, or progress with speed, impetuosity, or violence.
- pour β to send (a liquid, fluid, or anything in loose particles) flowing or falling, as from one container to another, or into, over, or on something: to pour a glass of milk; to pour water on a plant.
- flux β a flowing or flow.
- overflowing β to flow or run over, as rivers or water: After the thaw, the river overflows and causes great damage.
- cataract β Cataracts are layers over a person's eyes that prevent them from seeing properly. Cataracts usually develop because of old age or illness.
- niagara β a river on the boundary between W New York and Ontario, Canada, flowing from Lake Erie into Lake Ontario. 34 miles (55 km) long.
- drench β to wet thoroughly; soak.
- downpour β a heavy, drenching rain.
- cloudburst β A cloudburst is a sudden, very heavy fall of rain.
- rainstorm β a storm with heavy rain.
- monsoon β the seasonal wind of the Indian Ocean and southern Asia, blowing from the southwest in summer and from the northeast in winter.
- surge β a strong, wavelike, forward movement, rush, or sweep: the onward surge of an angry mob.
- cascade β If you refer to a cascade of something, you mean that there is a large amount of it.
verb deluge
- drench β to wet thoroughly; soak.
- soak β to lie in and become saturated or permeated with water or some other liquid.
- flood β a great flowing or overflowing of water, especially over land not usually submerged.
- overwhelm β to overcome completely in mind or feeling: overwhelmed by remorse.
- swamp β a tract of wet, spongy land, often having a growth of certain types of trees and other vegetation, but unfit for cultivation.
- douse β to plunge into water or the like; drench: She doused the clothes in soapy water.
- submerge β to put or sink below the surface of water or any other enveloping medium.
- overflow β to flow or run over, as rivers or water: After the thaw, the river overflows and causes great damage.
- overrun β to rove over (a country, region, etc.); invade; ravage: a time when looting hordes had overrun the province.
- teem β to abound or swarm; be prolific or fertile (usually followed by with).
- inundate β to flood; cover or overspread with water; deluge.
- overload β to load to excess; overburden: Don't overload the raft or it will sink.
- overcrowd β Fill (accommodations or a space) beyond what is usual or comfortable.
- souse β to swoop or pounce upon.
- stream β a body of water flowing in a channel or watercourse, as a river, rivulet, or brook. Synonyms: rill, run, streamlet, runnel.
- sop β a piece of solid food, as bread, for dipping in liquid food.
- flush β a hand or set of cards all of one suit. Compare royal flush, straight flush.
- sluice β an artificial channel for conducting water, often fitted with a gate (sluice gate) at the upper end for regulating the flow.
- drown β to die under water or other liquid of suffocation.
- gush β to flow out or issue suddenly, copiously, or forcibly, as a fluid from confinement: Water gushed from the broken pipe.
- wet β moistened, covered, or soaked with water or some other liquid: wet hands.
- whelm β to submerge; engulf.
- oversupply β an excessive supply.
- crowd β A crowd is a large group of people who have gathered together, for example to watch or listen to something interesting, or to protest about something.
- glut β to feed or fill to satiety; sate: to glut the appetite.
- snow β Sir Charles Percy (C. P. Snow) 1905β80, English novelist and scientist.
- abound β If things abound, or if a place abounds with things, there are very large numbers of them.
- overcome β to get the better of in a struggle or conflict; conquer; defeat: to overcome the enemy.
- bury β To bury something means to put it into a hole in the ground and cover it up with earth.
- shower β a person or thing that shows.
- bombard β If you bombard someone with something, you make them face a great deal of it. For example, if you bombard them with questions or criticism, you keep asking them a lot of questions or you keep criticizing them.