deluge

Significado (Inglés)

Noun

1. A great flood or rain.
2. An overwhelming amount of something; anything that overwhelms or causes great destruction.
3. A system for flooding or drenching a space, container, or area with water in an emergency to prevent or extinguish a fire.

Verb

1. (transitive) To flood with water.
2. (transitive) To overwhelm.

Sinónimos

flood

inundation

inundate

downpour

torrent

overflow

cloudburst

overwhelm

heavy rain

submerge

cataclysm

swamp

shower

🚿

alluvion

avalanche

drown

flooding

flood out

pelter

rain

🌧️

soaker

waterspout

plenty

precipice

diluvion

rain cats and dogs

rain shower

freshet

smother

soak

diluvium

spate

flush

flowing

the Flood

flow

mass of water

whelm

lavish

overrun

heavy shower

downfall

Traducións

déluge

diluvio

diluvio

inonder

zondvloed

inondare

dilúvio

Sintflut

dilagare

trombe

Überschwemmung

allagamento

inondazione

diluvi

Pronúnciase como (IPA)

/ˈdɛl.juːdʒ/

Etimoloxía (Inglés)

Herdado de Middle English: deluge

In summary

From Middle English deluge, from Old French deluge, alteration of earlier deluvie, from Latin dīluvium, from dīluō (“wash away”). Doublet of diluvium.