Emily Dickinson Lexicon

DEL'UGE, v.t.

1. To overflow with water; to inundate; to drown. The waters deluged the earth and destroyed the old world.
2. To overwhelm; to cover with any flowing or moving, spreading body. The Northern nations deluged the Roman empire with their armies.
3. To overwhelm; to cause to sink under the weight of a general or spreading calamity; as, the land is deluged with corruption.