Deluge vs Delude - What's the difference?
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A great flood or rain.
An overwhelming amount of something; anything that overwhelms or causes great destruction.
* Milton
* Lowell
(Military engineering) A damage control system on navy warships which is activated by excessive temperature within the Vertical Launching System.
* NAVEDTRA 14324A
To flood with water.
To overwhelm.
To deceive into believing something which is false; to lead into error; to dupe.
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* Burke
(obsolete) To frustrate or disappoint.
* Dryden
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)- The deluge continued for hours, drenching the land and slowing traffic to a halt.
- The rock concert was a deluge of sound.
- A fiery deluge fed / With ever-burning sulphur unconsumed.
- 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.
- 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
- 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 0192830988See also
* inundate ----delude
English
Verb
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- To delude the nation by an airy phantom.
- It deludes thy search.