verb
definition
To flood with water.
example
Some areas were deluged with a month's worth of rain in 24 hours.
definition
To overwhelm.
example
After the announcement, they were deluged with requests for more information.
Examples of deluged in a Sentence
The southern slopes of the Dang la are deluged with rain, hail and snow throughout the year.
He was then deluged with petitions urging him to call it together, and this agitation was opposed by Sir George Jeffreys and Francis Wythens, who presented addresses expressing "abhorrence" of the "Petitioners," and thus initiated the movement of the abhorrers, who supported the action of the king.
One of the finest of the endemic flowering plants of the group is the boraginaceous "Chatham Island lily" (M y ousitidium nobile), a gigantic forget-me-not, which grows on the shingly shore in a few places only, and always just on the high-water mark, where it is daily deluged by the waves; while dracophyllums, leucopogons and arborescent ragworts are characteristic forms in the vegetation.
It appears to have resembled in its main features those remarkable outpourings of basalt which have deluged so many thousand square miles of the western area of the United States.
In summer it was deluged with water when the weather was dry, and in autumn a splendid crop of strong spikes of bloom resulted.
Even with a river supply fairly constant in level and always abundant, no attempt should be made to force on a larger volume of water than the feeders can properly distribute and the drains adequately remove, or one part of the meadow will be deluged and another stinted.