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   Deluge , n. [F. déluge, L. diluvium, fr. diluere wash away; di- = dis- + luere, equiv. to lavare to wash. See Lave, and cf. Diluvium.]
   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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   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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   Deluge, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Deluged ; p. pr. & vb. n. Deluging.]
   To overflow with water; to inundate; to overwhelm.
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   The deluged earth would useless grow.
   Blackmore.
   
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   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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