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say it: DEH-lyooj
deluge is a noun and verb meaning "an overwhelming number or amount". It carries 6 recorded senses.
an overwhelming number or amount
“a flood of requests”
“a torrent of abuse”
a heavy rain
the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land
“plains fertilized by annual inundations”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for deluge come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.