deluge
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(verb) fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid; "the basement was inundated after the storm"; "The images flooded his mind" |
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Synonyms: flood, inundate, swamp |
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Related Words: fill, fill up, make full |
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(verb) fill beyond capacity; "The water flooded the fields" |
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Synonyms: flood, inundate |
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Related Words: fill, occupy |
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(verb) fill or cover completely, usually with water |
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Synonyms: inundate, submerge |
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Related Words: flood |
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(verb) charge someone with too many tasks |
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Synonyms: flood out, overwhelm |
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Related Words: burden, charge, saddle |
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(noun) an overwhelming number or amount; "a flood of requests"; "a torrent of abuse" |
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Synonyms: flood, torrent |
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Related Words: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, muckle, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad, whole lot, whole slew |
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(noun) the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land |
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Synonyms: flood, inundation |
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Related Words: debacle, flash flood, geological phenomenon |
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(noun) a heavy rain |
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Synonyms: cloudburst, downpour, soaker, torrent, waterspout |
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Related Words: rain, rainfall |
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