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Deluge vs Delude - What's the difference?

deluge | delude |

In transitive terms the difference between deluge and delude

is that deluge is to overwhelm while delude is to deceive into believing something which is false; to lead into error; to dupe.

As a noun deluge

is a great flood or rain.

As a proper noun Deluge

is the Biblical flood during the time of Noah.

deluge

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A great flood or rain.
  • The deluge continued for hours, drenching the land and slowing traffic to a halt.
  • An overwhelming amount of something; anything that overwhelms or causes great destruction.
  • The rock concert was a deluge of sound.
  • * Milton
  • A fiery deluge fed / With ever-burning sulphur unconsumed.
  • * Lowell
  • The little bird sits at his door in the sun, / Atilt like a blossom among the leaves, / And lets his illumined being o'errun / With the deluge of summer it receives.
  • (Military engineering) A damage control system on navy warships which is activated by excessive temperature within the Vertical Launching System.
  • * NAVEDTRA 14324A
  • In the event of a restrained firing or canister overtemperature condition, the deluge system sprays cooling water within the canister until the overtemperature condition no longer exists.

    Verb

  • To flood with water.
  • To overwhelm.
  • After the announcement, they were deluged with requests for more information.

    References

    * 1996, T.F. Hoad, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Etymology , Oxford University Press, ISBN 0192830988

    See also

    * inundate ----

    delude

    English

    Verb

    (delud)
  • To deceive into believing something which is false; to lead into error; to dupe.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2012 , date=August 5 , author=Nathan Rabin , title=TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “I Love Lisa” (season 4, episode 15; originally aired 02/11/1993) citation , page= , passage=Ralph Wiggum is generally employed as a bottomless fount of glorious non sequiturs, but in “I Love Lisa” he stands in for every oblivious chump who ever deluded himself into thinking that with persistence, determination, and a pure heart he can win the girl of his dreams. }}
  • * Burke
  • To delude the nation by an airy phantom.
  • (obsolete) To frustrate or disappoint.
  • * Dryden
  • It deludes thy search.

    Synonyms

    * (to deceive) deceive, mislead

    Anagrams

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