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allagare — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • deluge noun A sudden, heavy flood of water, or an overwhelming rainstorm.
  • flood noun An overflow of water that covers land that is normally dry.
  • flush verb To clean by flooding with water, especially a toilet.
  • sluice noun A gate or channel that controls the flow of water, often found in canals or dams.

Senses

allagare is used for these senses in English:

  • deluge (transitive) To flood with water.
  • flood To cover or partly fill as if by a flood.
  • flood (Internet, ambitransitive) To paste numerous lines of text to (a chat system) in order to disrupt the conversation.
  • flush To cause to be full; to flood; to overflow; to overwhelm with water.
  • sluice (transitive) To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice

deluge — full definition

  1. noun A sudden, heavy flood of water, or an overwhelming rainstorm.
  2. noun An overwhelming amount of anything arriving at once.
  3. verb To overwhelm someone with a large amount of something.

flood — full definition

  1. noun An overflow of water that covers land that is normally dry.
  2. noun A large, overwhelming amount of something arriving all at once.
  3. verb To cover land with water, or to fill something with an overwhelming amount.

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