Word Meanings - DELUGE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

= dis- + luere, equiv. to lavare to wash. See Lave, and cf. 1. A washing away; an overflowing of the land by water; an inundation; a flood; specifically, The Deluge, the great flood in the days of Noah . 2. Fig.: Anything which overwhelms, or

Additional info about word: DELUGE

= dis- + luere, equiv. to lavare to wash. See Lave, and cf. 1. A washing away; an overflowing of the land by water; an inundation; a flood; specifically, The Deluge, the great flood in the days of Noah . 2. Fig.: Anything which overwhelms, or causes great destruction. "The deluge of summer." Lowell. A fiery deluge fed With ever-burning sulphur unconsumed. Milton. As I grub up some quaint old fragment of a street, or a house, or a shop, or tomb or burial ground, which has still survived in the deluge. F. Harrison. After me the deluge. Madame de Pompadour.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DELUGE)

• Flood
• Deluge
• inundation
• abundance
• Inundate
• Overflow
• submerge
• deluge
• flood
• overwhelm
• Redundancy
• exuberance
• superabundance
• Submerge
• Drown
• plunge
• inundate
• fink
• steep
• immerse

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of DELUGE)

• Air
• dry
• ventilate
• fan
• sun
• aridity
• exsiccate

Related words: (words related to DELUGE)

• FLOODER
  One who floods anything.
• OVERFLOWINGLY
  In great abundance; exuberantly. Boyle.
• ARIDITY
  1. The state or quality of being arid or without moisture; dryness. 2. Fig.: Want of interest of feeling; insensibility; dryness of style or feeling; spiritual drought. Norris.
• VENTILATE
  brandish in the air, to fan, to winnow, from ventus wind; akin to E. 1. To open and expose to the free passage of air; to supply with fresh air, and remove impure air from; to air; as, to ventilate a room; to ventilate a cellar; to ventilate a
• STEEP
  Bright; glittering; fiery. His eyen steep, and rolling in his head. Chaucer.
• DROWN
  To be suffocated in water or other fluid; to perish in water. Methought, what pain it was to drown. Shak. (more info) be drowned, sink, become drunk, fr. druncen drunken. See Drunken,
• FLOODAGE
  Inundation. Carlyle.
• STEEPLE
  A spire; also, the tower and spire taken together; the whole of a structure if the roof is of spire form. See Spire. "A weathercock on a steeple." Shak. Rood steeple. See Rood tower, under Rood. -- Steeple bush , a low shrub having dense panicles
• EXSICCATE
  To exhaust or evaporate moisture from; to dry up. Sir T. Browne.
• STEEPLY
  In a steep manner; with steepness; with precipitous declivity.
• ABUNDANCE
  An overflowing fullness; ample sufficiency; great plenty; profusion; copious supply; superfluity; wealth: -- strictly applicable to quantity only, but sometimes used of number. It is lamentable to remember what abundance of noble blood hath been
• STEEP-DOWN
  Deep and precipitous, having steep descent. Wash me in steep-down gulfs of liquid fire. Shak.
• OVERFLOWING
  An overflow; that which overflows; exuberance; copiousness. He was ready to bestow the overflowings of his full mind on anybody who would start a subject. Macaulay.
• OVERWHELM
  1. To cover over completely, as by a great wave; to overflow and bury beneath; to ingulf; hence, figuratively, to immerse and bear down; to overpower; to crush; to bury; to oppress, etc., overpoweringly. The sea overwhelmed their enemies.
• INUNDATE
  pref. in- in + undare to rise in waves, to overflow, fr. unda a wave. 1. To cover with a flood; to overflow; to deluge; to flood; as, the river inundated the town. 2. To fill with an overflowing abundance or superfluity; as, the country
• FLOODING
  The filling or covering with water or other fluid; overflow; inundation; the filling anything to excess.
• IMMERSED
  Growing wholly under water. Gray. (more info) 1. Deeply plunged into anything, especially a fluid. 2. Deeply occupied; engrossed; entangled.
• FLOOD
  D. vloed, OS. flod, OHG. fluot, G. flut, Icel. floedh, Sw. & Dan. flod, Goth. flodus; from the root of E. flow. sq. root80. See Flow, 1. A great flow of water; a body of moving water; the flowing stream, as of a river; especially, a body of water,
• SUBMERGENCE
  The act of submerging, or the state of being submerged; submersion.
• IMMERSE
  Immersed; buried; hid; sunk. "Things immerse in matter." Bacon.
• WATERFLOOD
  A flood of water; an inundation.
• EMPLUNGE
  To plunge; to implunge. Spenser.
• LANDFLOOD
  An overflowing of land by river; an inundation; a freshet. Clarendon.