DELUGE Synonyms

• the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land

• an overwhelming number or amount

• a heavy rain

• a violently fast stream of water (or other liquid)

• an overwhelming number or amount

• a heavy rain

• a small waterfall or series of small waterfalls

• a succession of stages or operations or processes or units

• a sudden downpour (as of tears or sparks etc) likened to a rain shower

• rush down in big quantities, like a cascade

• arrange (open windows) on a computer desktop so that they overlap each other, with the title bars visible

• a large flow

• the occurrence of surplus liquid (as water) exceeding the limit or capacity

• flow or run over (a limit or brim)

• overflow with a certain feeling

• the act of moving hurriedly and in a careless manner

• physician and American Revolutionary leader; signer of the Declaration of Independence (1745-1813)

• a sudden forceful flow

• grasslike plants growing in wet places and having cylindrical often hollow stems

• the swift release of a store of affective force

• a sudden burst of activity

• (American football) an attempt to advance the ball by running into the line

• not accepting reservations

• done under pressure

• move hurridly

• attack suddenly

• urge to an unnatural speed

• act at high speed

• run with the ball, in football

• cause to move fast or to rush or race

• cause to occur rapidly

• fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid

• fill or cover completely, usually with water

• gradual formation of new land, by recession of the sea or deposit of sediment

• the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land

• clay or silt or gravel carried by rushing streams and deposited where the stream slows down

• a heavy rain

• overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli

• charge someone with too many tasks

• cover completely or make imperceptible

• overcome by superior force

• a heavy rain

• a thrower of missiles

• a heavy rain

• a person who drinks alcohol to excess habitually

• sink below the surface; go under or as if under water

• cover completely or make imperceptible

• put under water

• fill or cover completely, usually with water

• low land that is seasonally flooded; has more woody plants than a marsh and better drainage than a bog

• a situation fraught with difficulties and imponderables

• drench or submerge or be drenched or submerged

• fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid

• a tornado passing over water and picking up a column of water and mist

• a heavy rain

• a channel through which water is discharged (especially one used for drainage from the gutters of a roof)

• charge someone with too many tasks