Both Uses of
deluge
in
Far from the Madding Crowd
- 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.†
Chpt 25-27 *
- 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.†
Chpt 46-48
Definition:
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(deluge) a large amount of something -- especially water
or:
to overwhelm with a large amount of something -- especially water