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单词 deluge
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delugen.

/ˈdɛljuːdʒ/
Forms: Also Middle English (1600s) diluge, 1500s diludge, (1600s dyluge).
Etymology: < French déluge (12th cent. in Hatzfeld & Darmesteter), early < Latin dīluvium (see diluvium n.), modified after the example of words of popular formation (Hatzfeld). Old French forms nearer to the Latin were deluve , delouve , diluve : compare Provençal diluvi , Spanish diluvio , Italian diluvio . An earlier Middle English form was diluvy n. In the 15th cent. it rhymed with huge.
1. A great flood or overflowing of water, a destructive inundation. (Often used hyperbolically, e.g. of a heavy fall of rain.)
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > flood or flooding > [noun]
streamc950
water floodOE
floodc1000
waterOE
diluvya1325
waterganga1325
flowinga1340
delugec1374
diluvec1386
Noah's floodc1390
overflowing1430
inundation1432
flowa1450
surrounding1449
over-drowninga1500
spate1513
float1523
drowning1539
ravine1545
alluvion1550
surundacion1552
watershot1567
overflow1589
ravage1611
inunding1628
surroundera1642
water breach1669
flooding1799
debacle1802
diluviation1816
deluging1824
superflux1830
whelm1842
come1862
floodage1862
sheet-flood1897
flash flooding1939
flash-flood1940
the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > precipitation or atmospheric moisture > rain > [noun] > a or the fall of rain > downpour
floodc1275
spate1513
spout1554
gourder1565
squata1640
downpouring1669
deluge1720
pash1722
plout1740
on-ding1776
pelt1785
soaker1789
pelter1791
teem1793
pour1794
oncome1808
downpour1811
plash1820
slashing1829
plungec1841
dispunging1876
steeper1878
splurge1879
soak1891
drencher1892
toad-strangler1938
c1374 G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. ii. vi. 51 Ne no deluge ne doþ so cruel harmes.
c1393 G. Chaucer Scogan 14 Thow cawsest this diluge [v.r. deluuye] of pestilence.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 39 There happen, together with earthquakes, deluges also, and inundations of the sea.
1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 54 A violent storme of raine..caused such a sudden Deluge..that a Carrauan of two thousand Camels perisht.
1720 J. Gay Trivia i, in Poems I. 142 When the bursting clouds a deluge pour.
1748 Acct. Voy. for Discov. North-west Passage I. 121 A Harbour..where they might go free from the Ice and the Spring Deluge, which sometimes happens..by the Suddenness of the Thaw.
1855 J. L. Motley Rise Dutch Republic II. iii. v. 315 The memorable deluge of the thirteenth century, out of which the Zuyder Zee was born.
1878 T. H. Huxley Physiography (ed. 2) 131 Where the rain comes down as a deluge.
2. spec. The great Flood in the time of Noah (also called the general or universal deluge).
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > flood or flooding > [noun] > Biblical
Noah's floodOE
the floodOE
diluvya1325
delugec1386
diluvec1386
sin-flood1550
cataclysm1637
Noachian deluge1711
c1386 G. Chaucer Parson's Tale ⁋765 God dreynte al the world at the diluge [v.r. diluve].
1484 W. Caxton tr. G. de la Tour-Landry Bk. Knight of Tower (1971) xlviii. 70 The deluge or gaderyng of waters in the dayes of Noe.
1559 W. Cuningham Cosmogr. Glasse 194 Jaffa, a port whiche was builded before the diludge.
1625 N. Carpenter Geogr. Delineated ii. i. 8 In the generall deluge, wherein all mankinde suffered for their sinnes a plague of waters.
1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World ii. 123 From the Days of the General Deluge.
1880 ‘Ouida’ Moths I. 46 It must have been worn at the deluge.
3. figurative and transferred.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > excessive amount or degree > [noun] > superabundance > a superabundant quantity or amount
superabundance?a1425
delugec1430
superfluousness1561
float1763
the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > abundance > [noun] > profuseness, luxuriousness, or lushness > a profusion or lavish abundance > viewed as flowing or falling
stream971
flood1340
affluencec1390
showera1425
spatec1425
delugec1430
rain1590
spring tide1592
cataract?1614
flux1678
c1430 J. Lydgate Minor Poems (1840) 251 That worldly wawes with there mortal deluge Ne drowne me nat.
1555 R. Eden in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde Pref. sig. aiijv Drowned in the deluge of erroure.
1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. x. 446 The general deluge of the Gothes, Hunnes and Vandales.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost i. 68 A fiery Deluge, fed With ever-burning Sulphur unconsum'd. View more context for this quotation
1772 J. Adams tr. A. de Ulloa Voy. S. Amer. (ed. 3) I. 252 The whole city and..country were often, as it were, buried under a deluge of ashes.
1872 W. Black Strange Adventures Phaeton xxvi. 359 When the waters of this deluge of rhetoric had abated.
4. The inundation (of). Also figurative. Obsolete.
ΚΠ
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 65 In the generall deluge of the countrey by raine they only remained aliue.
1631 J. Weever Anc. Funerall Monuments 768 Demolished long before the violent deluge of such buildings, which happened in the raigne of King Henry the eight.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

delugev.

/ˈdɛljuːdʒ/
Etymology: < deluge n.: compare to flood.
1. transitive. To flow or pour over (a surface) in a deluge; to flood, inundate; also absol. (Often used hyperbolically.)
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > flood or flooding > flood or overflow [verb (transitive)]
overruneOE
overflowOE
surround1444
overfleeta1460
infounder1505
overfloat1601
inund1628
deluge1649
inound1657
flood1663
to set on float1692
overflood?1784
inundate1791
float1794
freshet1865
1649 Montrose Epit. Chas. I in H. Guthrie Mem. (1702) 255 I'de weep the World in such a Strain, As it should deluge once again.
1720 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad V. xxi. 383 At ev'ry Step, before Achilles stood The crimson Surge, and delug'd him with Blood.
1727 D. Defoe Syst. Magick i. iv. 106 Sufficient to deluge the World, and drown Mankind.
1787 Generous Attachment III. 82 The heavens now deluged in good earnest.
1790 F. Burney Diary Aug. (1842) V. 152 He left me neither more nor less than deluged in tears.
1869 J. Phillips Vesuvius iii. 48 Hot water from the mountain deluged the neighbourhood.
2. figurative and transferred.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > excessive amount or degree > do (something) to excess [verb (transitive)] > apply in excess > overwhelm with excessive amount
plaster1546
inundate1623
deluge1654
overwhelm1806
flood1882
1654 Z. Coke Art of Logick To Rdr. sig. a7v Truths that before delug'd you, will take you now but up to the Ancles.
1733 A. Pope Of Use of Riches 8 At length Corruption, like a gen'ral Flood..Shall deluge all.
1833 H. Martineau Loom & Lugger i. i. 2 The market was deluged with smuggled silks.
1849 W. Irving Oliver Goldsmith (rev. ed.) xxi. 204 The kingdom was deluged with pamphlets.

Derivatives

ˈdeluged adj.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > condition of being or making very wet > [adjective] > flooded
overdrowned1616
overfloweda1671
deluged1712
waterwashed1808
flooded1836
1712 R. Blackmore i. 41 The Delug'd Earth.
1887 C. Bowen tr. Virgil Æneid iii, in tr. Virgil in Eng. Verse 178 The deluged threshold in gore Ran.
ˈdeluger n. one who deluges (nonce-word).
ΚΠ
1834 Georgian Era IV. 463/2 He vented his reproaches upon the deluger.
ˈdeluging n. and adj.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > flood or flooding > [noun]
streamc950
water floodOE
floodc1000
waterOE
diluvya1325
waterganga1325
flowinga1340
delugec1374
diluvec1386
Noah's floodc1390
overflowing1430
inundation1432
flowa1450
surrounding1449
over-drowninga1500
spate1513
float1523
drowning1539
ravine1545
alluvion1550
surundacion1552
watershot1567
overflow1589
ravage1611
inunding1628
surroundera1642
water breach1669
flooding1799
debacle1802
diluviation1816
deluging1824
superflux1830
whelm1842
come1862
floodage1862
sheet-flood1897
flash flooding1939
flash-flood1940
the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > flood or flooding > [adjective] > flooding or overflowing
delavya1400
floating1578
swimmingc1595
overfloten1601
gulf-eating?1611
overflowing1611
overrunning1611
tideful1622
inundant1629
diluvial1656
exuberant1678
diluviana1684
overflown1818
deluging1824
deluginous1835
insurgent1849
flooding1850
overstreaming1860
1824 M. R. Mitford Our Village (1863) I. 177 The sky promised a series of deluging showers.
1890 W. C. Russell Ocean Trag. II. xxi. 183 These darkening, glimmering, green delugings.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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