deluge

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈdɛl.juː(d)ʒ/    美 /ˈdɛl.ju(d)ʒ/|/ˈdɛ.lu(d)ʒ/|/ˈdi.lu(d)ʒ/|/dəˈlu(d)ʒ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A great flood or rain.
    — The deluge continued for hours, drenching the land and slowing traffic to a halt.
  2. An overwhelming amount of something; anything that overwhelms or causes great destruction.
    — The rock concert was a deluge of sound.
  3. A system for flooding or drenching a space, container, or area with water in an emergency to prevent or extinguish a fire.
    — deluge system, deluge gun, deluge set
动词 v.
  1. To flood with water. transitive
    — Some areas were deluged with a month's worth of rain in 24 hours.
  2. To overwhelm. transitive
    — After the announcement, they were deluged with requests for more information.

词形变化

deluges plural deluges present,singular,third-person deluging participle,present deluged participle,past deluged past

词汇关系

衍生词
after me the deluge after us the deluge Deluge deluge gun psychiatric deluge deluger undeluged
相关词
inundate

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is-
Proto-Italic *dis-
Latin dis-
Proto-Indo-European *lewh₃-der.
Proto-Italic *lawō
Latin lavō
Latin dīluō
Proto-Indo-European *-yós
Proto-Italic *-ios
Old Latin -ios
Latin -ius
Latin -ium
Latin dīluvium
Old French delugebor.
Middle English deluge
English deluge
From Middle English deluge, from Old French deluge, alteration of earlier deluvie, from Latin dīluvium, from dīluō (“wash away”). Doublet of diluvium.
词源 2
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is-
Proto-Italic *dis-
Latin dis-
Proto-Indo-European *lewh₃-der.
Proto-Italic *lawō
Latin lavō
Latin dīluō
Proto-Indo-European *-yós
Proto-Italic *-ios
Old Latin -ios
Latin -ius
Latin -ium
Latin dīluvium
Old French delugebor.
Middle English deluge
English deluge
From Middle English deluge, from Old French deluge, alteration of earlier deluvie, from Latin dīluvium, from dīluō (“wash away”). Doublet of diluvium.
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