Deluge vs Inundated - What's the difference?
deluge | inundated |
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.
(inundate)
flooded
To cover with large amounts of water; to flood.
To overwhelm.
As a proper noun deluge
is (bible) the biblical flood during the time of noah.As a verb inundated is
(inundate).As an adjective inundated is
flooded.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 ----inundated
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(head)inundate
English
Verb
(inundat)- The Dutch would sometimes inundate the land to hinder the Spanish army.
- The agency was inundated with phone calls.