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deluged

/del-yooj, -yoozh, del-ooj, -oozh, dih-looj, -loozh/US // ˈdɛl yudʒ, -yuʒ, ˈdɛl udʒ, -uʒ, dɪˈludʒ, -ˈluʒ //UK // (ˈdɛljuːdʒ) //

大量涌入的,大量涌入,大量涌现的,深陷泥潭

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a great flood of water; inundation; flood.
    • : a drenching rain; downpour.
    • : anything that overwhelms like a flood: a deluge of mail.
    • : the Deluge. flood.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    del·uged, del·ug·ing.

    • : to flood; inundate.
    • : to overrun; overwhelm: She was deluged with congratulatory letters.

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Examples

  • Officials were soon working through the weekends and tapped staff from every department — including property assessments — to help with the deluge.

  • The early returns on election night could look entirely different from the final vote count, thanks to a deluge of mail-in ballots that take much longer to tabulate than in-person votes.

  • The demand deluge has led to YouTube’s ad prices doubling in some cases.

  • You’ve probably already encountered the deluge of takes on Quibi’s remarkably quick burnout.

  • If Obama is elected, he could encourage his supporters to deluge members of Congress with e-mails, or use the Web to organize collective research.

  • Predictably, he was deluged with angry responses; as of this writing, he is still responding to critics.

  • The paper was deluged with complaints from readers, and from UK and overseas Jewish groups, before issuing a prompt apology.

  • Anyone who votes for it is going to be deluged with angry phone calls and some very ugly attack ads come next campaign.

  • Letter-writing campaigns were launched, and outraged callers deluged the company with complaints.

  • But then they saw the water rise—the result of the failed federal levee system that deluged 80 percent of the city.

  • On one of these fine days the steward stumbled with the coffee-pot, and deluged me with its burning contents.

  • Deluged as they were continually by heavy seas, nothing but the most inflammable substances would burn.

  • By the marauders it was looked upon as a grand frolic, and owners of missing mats and deluged yards might grumble as they pleased.

  • All the little men who witnessed this scene deluged their cross-bows with tears.

  • The reading world is deluged with books relating to woman,—her education, her labor, and her civil rights.