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单词 deluge
释义
del·uge (dĕlyj, -yzh, dālj, -lzh, dĭ-lj, -lzh)
n.
1.
a. A great flood.
b. A heavy downpour.
2. Something that overwhelms as if by a great flood: a deluge of fan mail.
3. Deluge In the Bible, the great flood that occurred in the time of Noah.
tr.v. del·uged, del·ug·ing, del·ug·es
1. To overrun with water; inundate.
2. To overwhelm with a large number or amount; swamp: The press secretary was deluged with requests for information.

[From Middle English, flood, from Old French, from Latin dīluvium, from dīluere, to wash away : dis-, apart; see DIS- + -luere, to wash; see leu(ə)- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.]
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