单词 | deluge |
释义 | delugen. 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. 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. 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). < n.c1374v.1649 |
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