Douse vs Deluge - What's the difference?
douse | deluge |
(ambitransitive) To plunge suddenly into water; to duck; to immerse.
To fall suddenly into water.
To put out; to extinguish.
To strike.
(nautical) To strike or lower in haste; to slacken suddenly; as, douse the topsail.
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.
In transitive terms the difference between douse and deluge
is that douse is to strike while deluge is to overwhelm.As verbs the difference between douse and deluge
is that douse is to plunge suddenly into water; to duck; to immerse while deluge is to flood with water.As nouns the difference between douse and deluge
is that douse is a blow; stroke while deluge is a great flood or rain.As a proper noun Deluge is
the Biblical flood during the time of Noah.douse
English
Etymology 1
Probably of (etyl) origin, related to (etyl) and (douse) below.Alternative forms
*Verb
- (Hudibras)
Etymology 2
From (etyl) duschen, .Verb
(dous)Anagrams
*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.