Meaning of Deluge | Babel Free
ˈdɛl.juː(d)ʒDefinitions
- A great flood or rain.
- The flood taking place in the story of Noah found in the Bible (Genesis) and Qur'an.
- An overwhelming amount of something; anything that overwhelms or causes great destruction.
- A system for flooding or drenching a space, container, or area with water in an emergency to prevent or extinguish a fire.
Equivalents
Examples
“The deluge continued for hours, drenching the land⟳ and slowing traffic to a halt.”
“The rock concert was a deluge of sound⟳.”
“A fiery deluge fed / With ever-burning sulphur unconsumed.”
“The little bird sits at his door in the sun, / Atilt like⟳ a blossom among the leaves, / And lets his illumined being o'errun / With the deluge of summer it receives.”
“deluge system, deluge gun, deluge set⟳”
“2002, NAVEDTRA, Gunner's Mate 14324A In the event of a restrained firing or canister overtemperature condition, the deluge system sprays cooling water within the canister until the overtemperature condition no longer exists.”
“On June 8, 2005, a decomposition reaction occurred in the manifold system on a mobile acetylene trailer at Western's Bellville plant⟳ that caused the fusible plugs of five cylinders to melt⟳, releasing the products of decomposition. The materials released did not ignite before the deluge system was manually activated, controlling the incident. The incident started when a mobile acetylene trailer, with the cylinder valves open⟳ and the manifold fully pressurized, was moved into another bay and the block⟳ valve was opened, which initiated an acetylene decomposition reaction.”
CEFR level
C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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