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  • The deluge continues as if the Gamemakers are intent on washing us all away.  (source)
    deluge = overwhelming rain
  • There was nothing but dry paint, difficult breath, and the deluge of abuse from Rosa.†  (source)
    deluge = an overwhelming amount; or to overwhelm -- especially said of water
  • ...A fiery Deluge, fed With ever-burning Sulphur unconsum'd.†  (source)
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  • Maybe it was just the ferocity of the deluge.†  (source)
    deluge = an overwhelming amount; or to overwhelm -- especially said of water
  • In fact, so disconcerted by this notion became the Count that when Idlehour was deluged by rainstorms that September, giant black moths harrowed his dreams.†  (source)
    deluged = overwhelmed -- especially with water
  • Normally I could not have abided such information; and yet what was happening to me was so quick and sure, like one of the late autumn deluges that were sweeping in on us more and more often, the red-brown water suddenly ankle-deep, seeping in everywhere, and in the last minutes before I would go to her again I was practically trembling.†  (source)
    deluges = overwhelms -- especially with water
  • Nevertheless, that a male dissembler who by deluging her with untenable fictions charms the female wisely, may acquire powers reaching to the extremity of perdition, is a truth taught to many by unsought and wringing occurrences.†  (source)
    deluging = overwhelming -- especially with water
  • while yet 620 The field remains undeluged with your blood.†  (source)
    undeluged = not overwhelmed
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in undeluged means not and reverses the meaning of deluged. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
  • Dramatic flashes of forked lightning briefly illuminated the sky, and then, as if in afterthought, the heavy drumbeat roll of a deluge hit the roof of our little bungalow, so fierce that ar first it drowned out sound.†  (source)
    deluge = an overwhelming amount; or to overwhelm -- especially said of water
  • December twenty-first is when everyone leaves for vacation and then in the new year we're deluged with projects from our own list of authors and journalists.†  (source)
    deluged = overwhelmed -- especially with water
  • In autumn, on the other hand, we have deluges of mud.†  (source)
    deluges = overwhelms -- especially with water
  • The water accumulated and washed deeper down, and the roar of the pool thus formed spread into the night as the head and chief among other noises of the kind created by the deluging rain.†  (source)
    deluging = overwhelming -- especially with water
  • The Thief's Downfall!" said Griphook, clambering to his feet and looking back the deluge onto the tracks, which, Harry knew now, had been more than water.†  (source)
    deluge = an overwhelming amount; or to overwhelm -- especially said of water
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