Word Finder - deluge

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A great flood or rain.

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The deluge continued for hours, drenching the land and slowing traffic to a halt.

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An overwhelming amount of something; anything that overwhelms or causes great destruction.

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The rock concert was a deluge of sound.

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(military engineering) A damage control system on navy warships which is activated by excessive temperature within the Vertical Launching System.

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To flood with water.

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Some areas were deluged with a month's worth of rain in 24 hours.

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To overwhelm.

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After the announcement, they were deluged with requests for more information.

That deluge of fire was worth seeing.

Next Ahriman sent a deluge, from which one man escaped in a boat with his cattle.

As a rule, destruction by a deluge is the most favourite myth, but destructions by fire and wind and by the wrath of a god are common in Australian, Peruvian and Egyptian tradition.

Wispohahp is the Aht Noah, who, with his wife, his two brothers and their wives escaped from the deluge in a canoe.

Unless you set some restrictions, using one of the online free job posting services can result in a deluge of resumes.

Round Mount Ararat, however, gather many traditions connected with the Deluge.

His departure is sometimes connected with the myth of the deluge.

The Babylonian story of Ea (see § 2) and the deluge finds an Indian parallel in the fish (or, otherwise a manifestation of Vishnu the many-headed serpent) which warned Manu.

The earliest references are to be found in the various accounts of the Deluge.

The Priestly Writer in the Pentateuch also a p pears to be acquainted with this doctrine; it is the first of four ages which begins with the Creation and ends with the Deluge.

There were the retarding influences of the Mosaic account of sudden creation, and the belief that fossils represented relics of a universal deluge.

External evidence, which recognizes no universal deluge and no dispersal of mankind in the third millennium B.C., throws its own light upon the opening centuries of the second.

Others are probably later, and indicate that prosperity continued here, as it did on the other side of the Pyrenees in Gaul, till the later days of the 4th centuryperhaps indeed not till the fatal winters night in 406-7 when the barbarians burst the Rhine frontier and flooded Gaul and even Spain with a deluge from which there was no recovery.

This did not prevent StofHer from predicting a universal deluge for the year 152 4 - a year, as it turned out, distinguished for drought.

During his reign a great flood, called the Ogygian deluge, was said to have overwhelmed the land.

In wrath at this trick, according to Hesiod, or in other versions for the purpose of exterminating the remnants of people who escaped the deluge of Deucalion, Zeus never bestowed, or later withdrew, the gift of fire.

Or is her innocence a welcome antidote to a deluge of media sex?

This was not a deluge that my sun brolly could cope with and we ran for cover.

From the deluge of replies, they selected their amateur cinematographers from their positions on the seating charts.

Will and I then set off to brave the Fierce Ladies, storm clouds gathered and a deluge poured down upon the mountains.

Not a huge response I'm afraid, but at such short notice I wasn't exactly expecting a deluge of entries.

He received a deluge of post, most of it abusive.

The first week of April saw a deluge of product announcements timed to coincide with the JavaOne Today exhibition in San Francisco.

I'll have a deluge of orders - I know I want them all!

Rain plops are now falling, quickly followed by a deluge, all fresh clothes and dry shoes are soaked.

Flickr would also suffer from a sudden deluge of LOL!

The majority of press releases go straight into the bin, or simply get lost among the daily deluge of press materials.

With no sun and our recent deluge the flavor is disappointing but I am sure it will improve.

Our volume is so low that I don't think anyone will be overcome by the great deluge of mail here.

A particle physics Grid for the UK GridPP is the UK's contribution to analyzing this data deluge.

We were all a shocked by the ferocity of the unseasonal deluge and the damage wrought on fields and crops.

About GridPP UK particle physicists are builing a computing Grid, to analyze the data deluge from CERN's next particle accelerator.

Cynthia tried to clean up the topless Jeep, still aflood with the bounty of nature's deluge.

Borlase's letters to Pope, St Aubyn and others, with answers, fill several volumes of MS. There are also MS. notes on Cornwall, and a complete unpublished treatise Concerning the Creation and Deluge.

The deluge was tradi- Aquarius.

The earlier half is written in octosyllabic verse, and begins with the story of the Deluge.

Humboldt also discussed the Mexican doctrine of four ages of the world belonging to water, earth, air and fire, and ending respectively by deluge, earthquake, tempest and conflagration.

The extracts containing the Babylonian cosmology, the list of the antediluvian kings of Babylonia, and the Chaldaean story of the Deluge, have been shown by the decipherment of the cuneiform texts to have faithfully reproduced the native legends; we may, therefore, conclude that the rest of the History was equally trustworthy.

They believe in a future state, and have a confused tradition respecting a deluge, from which some persons were saved on a high mountain.

Among his sermons preached before his ordination, which was not till the 23rd of December 1660, were the famous discourses on The Wisdom of God in the Creation, and on the Chaos, Deluge and Dissolution of the World.

The latter includes three essays on "The Primitive Chaos and Creation of the World," "The General Deluge, its Causes and Effects," and "The Dissolution of the World and Future Conflagrations."

These agree with the more or less clear allusions in the Old Testament to myths of creation, Eden, deluge, mountain of gods, Titanic folk, world-dragons, heavenly hosts, &c., and also with the unearthed seals, tablets, altars, &c. representing mythical ideas.

There was, in one case, a retrospect which did not include the deluge, and in another the patriarchs were actual settlers, a descent into Egypt and subsequent exodus being ignored; moreover, the standpoints of those who did not go into exile and of those who did and returned would naturally differ.

Though mutilated portions of only a few of its lines have been preserved, and the text contains no proper name, it is clear that the tablet represents part of a Babylonian version of the Deluge Legend.'

The god here states that he is about to send a deluge, which will cause destruction to all mankind, and he gives directions for the building of a great ship in which "the beasts of the field and the birds of heaven" may be saved, along with Ut-napishtim and his family; he fixes the size of the ship and directs that it should be covered with a strong roof or deck.

The text bears a general resemblance to the two well-known Assyrian versions on tablets in the British Museum, but it has been claimed that its phraseology presents a closer parallel to the biblical version of the Deluge story in the "Priestly Code."

To the latter part of this period Professor Hilprecht would' assign the new Deluge fragment.

The text of this Deluge fragment also furnishes one more proof of the existence of parallel versions of the same legend.

Among other mythic Egyptian figures we have Ra, who once destroyed men in his wrath with circumstances suggestive of the Deluge; Khnum, a demiurge, is.represented at Philae as making man out of clay on a potter's wheel.

Bosses on standby for the 999 deluge AMBULANCE executives are preparing to join paramedics in responding to the deluge of emergency calls expected tonight.