deluge
പ്രളയം
definition
verb
he has been deluged with offers of work
inundate with a great quantity of something.
noun
But the scale of last year's flooding surpassed these previous deluges , with 45 square kilometres of land submerged.
a severe flood.
example
this may be the worst 'deluge' in living memory
A perfect 'deluge' of rain instantly followed, and the roads were quickly flooded.
Then the final week of May brought a 'deluge' of rain especially in the West.
Police fielded a 'deluge' of car vandalism complaints from motorists in north and west Wiltshire over Christmas.
This was the first day in the Alps and on the top of Col de Ramaz they had almost three inches of rain when a 'deluge' came down on them for a full forty five minutes.
Then down came the 'deluge' and it rained like I have never seen.
Alas this was not to be, as a 'deluge' of rain descended and the dancing had to be abandoned.
Which is good, of course, providing the flow doesn't become a flood, and the flood a mindless 'deluge' .
The recent 'deluge' has left most cattle farmers in a crisis situation as regards grazing management and silage cutting.
Meanwhile, insurance companies are bracing themselves for multi-million euro claims following the 'deluge' which left scores of homes and businesses flooded.
The game ended in a 'deluge' of rain and sleet but to the credit of both teams they continued to play positive football to the end.
A 'deluge' of rain on Friday evening led to several games in the Keighley area being abandoned - as the weather once again took its toll.
a 'deluge' of complaints
Their Shiraz variety grapes had to battle to survive after a 'deluge' of 200 mm of rain.
a 'deluge' of complaints
It stood in the lowest part of town, near the Town Hall, and like it, must have been flooded in the 'deluge' of 1955.
That strategy had the support of the city's power brokers and it got all the fuel it needed in 1938, when the worst 'deluge' in Los Angeles history killed 87 people.
But after the flood, after the 'deluge' they treated us as partners, not as workers for them, not as slaves, and started to give us knowledge.
a 'deluge' of rain hit the plains
Villagers look like they will be losing their main bus service in just over a fortnight, despite a 'deluge' of complaints to the bus company.
a 'deluge' of rain hit the plains
Trees were crashing down around either side of the campsite as hillsides slipped away in the 'deluge' of rain - all in a day's work for a surveyor of the time.
A titanic crash of thunder heralds the return of the darkness and the onset of a truly biblical 'deluge' .
Anyway, after that little digression, I am pleased to report that we had a 'deluge' of rain here yesterday.
China said its unchecked lumber industry was a primary cause of the 1998 'deluge' , the country's worst floods since the 1950s.
I went outside into a biblical 'deluge' , with no plan beyond having a big kip in the car.
Hundreds of residents who had suffered the 'deluge' after yesterday's rain welcomed the clear skies today as they set about assessing their loss.
These were no more than the drops of rain that preceded the 'deluge' .
And the water-etched scars high up on its banks speak of a torrent each spring when rains 'deluge' the land.
The April festival has been sunk by an ill-timed 'deluge' of rain.
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