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Del"uge (dĕl"&uuptack_;j), n. [F. déluge, L. diluvium, fr. diluere wash away; di- = dis- + luere, equiv. to lavare to wash. See Lave, and cf. Diluvium.] 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 (Gen. vii.).
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2. Fig.: Anything which overwhelms, or causes great destruction. “The deluge of summer.” Lowell.
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A fiery deluge fed
With ever-burning sulphur unconsumed. Milton.
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As I grub up some quaint old fragment of a [London] street, or a house, or a shop, or tomb or burial ground, which has still survived in the deluge. F. Harrison.
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After me the deluge.
(Aprés moi le déluge.) Madame de Pompadour.
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Del"uge, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Deluged (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Deluging.] 1. To overflow with water; to inundate; to overwhelm.
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The deluged earth would useless grow. Blackmore.
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2. 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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At length corruption, like a general flood . . .
Shall deluge all. Pope.
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