deluge
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
an overwhelming number or amount
a flood of requests
Types & categories
- lot hypernym
Related & opposite
- flood out derivation
- flood derivation
- oversupply derivation
- torrential derivation
Sense 2 verb
fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid
the basement was inundated after the storm
Types & categories
- fill hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 3 noun
a heavy rain
Types & categories
- rain hypernym
Related & opposite
- souse derivation
- inundate derivation
- flood derivation
- rain cats and dogs derivation
- torrential derivation
Sense 4 verb
charge someone with too many tasks
Types & categories
- burden hypernym
Related & opposite
- deluge derivation
Sense 5 noun
the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land
plains fertilized by annual inundations
Types & categories
- geological phenomenon hypernym
- debacle hyponym
- flash flood hyponym
- Noah's flood hyponym
Related & opposite
Sense 6 verb
fill or cover completely, usually with water
Types & categories
- flood hypernym
Related & opposite
- submersion derivation
- flood derivation
- torrent derivation
- submersible derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | flood out |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | flood |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | oversupply |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | torrential |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | lot |
| 2 | also see | Related & opposite | flood in |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | implosion therapy |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | flowage |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | flood |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | torrent |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | deluge |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | fill |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | souse |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | inundate |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | flood |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | rain cats and dogs |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | torrential |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | rain |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | deluge |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | burden |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | flood |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | inundate |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | flood |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | flood |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | geological phenomenon |
| 5 | hyponym | Types & categories | debacle |
| 5 | hyponym | Types & categories | flash flood |
| 5 | hyponym | Types & categories | Noah's flood |
| 6 | derivation | Related & opposite | submersion |
| 6 | derivation | Related & opposite | flood |
| 6 | derivation | Related & opposite | torrent |
| 6 | derivation | Related & opposite | submersible |
| 6 | hypernym | Types & categories | flood |