Synonyms of the word

deluge

• n. A great flood or rain.
• n. An overwhelming amount of something; anything that overwhelms or causes great destruction.
• n. (Military engineering) A damage control system on navy warships which is activated by excessive temperature…
• v. (transitive) To flood with water.
• v. (transitive) To overwhelm.

alluvion

• n. (law) The increase in the area of land due to the deposition of sediment (alluvium) by a river.

batch

• n. A bank; a sandbank.
• n. A field or patch of ground lying near a stream; the dale in which a stream flows.
• n. (obsolete) The process of baking.
• n. The quantity of bread or other baked goods baked at one time.
• n. A quantity of anything produced at one operation.
• n. A group or collection of things of the same kind, such as a batch of letters or the next batch of business.
• n. (computing) A set of data to be processed with one execution of a program.
• n. (Britain, dialect, Midlands) A bread roll.
• n. (Philippines) A graduating class.
• v. To aggregate things together into a batch.
• v. (computing) To handle a set of input data or requests as a batch process.
• adj. Of a process, operating for a defined set of conditions, and then halting.
• v. (informal) To live as a bachelor temporarily, of a married man or someone virtually married.

burden

• n. A heavy load.
• n. A responsibility, onus.
• n. A cause of worry; that which is grievous, wearisome, or oppressive.
• n. The capacity of a vessel, or the weight of cargo that she will carry.
• n. (mining) The tops or heads of stream-work which lie over the stream of tin.
• n. (metalworking) The proportion of ore and flux to fuel, in the charge of a blast furnace.
• n. A fixed quantity of certain commodities.
• n. (obsolete, rare) A birth.
• n. (medicine) The total amount of toxins, parasites, cancer cells, plaque or the such present in an organism.
• v. (transitive) To encumber with a burden (in any of the noun senses of the word).
• v. To impose, as a load or burden; to lay or place as a burden (something heavy or objectionable).
• n. (music) A phrase or theme that recurs at the end of each verse in a folk song or ballad.
• n. The drone of a bagpipe.
• n. (obsolete) Theme, core idea.

charge

• n. The scope of someone's responsibility.
• n. Someone or something entrusted to one's care, such as a child to a babysitter or a student to a teacher.
• n. A load or burden; cargo.
• n. The amount of money levied for a service.
• n. An instruction.
• n. (military) A ground attack against a prepared enemy.
• n. An accusation.
• n. An electric charge.
• n. (basketball) An offensive foul in which the player with the ball moves into a stationary defender.
• n. A measured amount of powder and/or shot in a firearm cartridge.
• n. (heraldry) An image displayed on an escutcheon.
• n. A forceful forward movement.
• n. A position (of a weapon) fitted for attack.
• n. (farriery) A sort of plaster or ointment.
• n. (obsolete) Weight; import; value.
• n. (historical or obsolete) A measure of thirty-six pigs of lead, each pig weighing about seventy pounds;…
• n. (ecclesiastical) An address given at a church service concluding a visitation.
• v. To assign a duty or responsibility to.
• v. (transitive) To assign (a debit) to an account.
• v. (transitive) To pay on account, as by using a credit card.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To require payment (of) (a price or fee, for goods, services, etc.).
• v. (possibly archaic) To sell at a given price.
• v. (law) To formally accuse (a person) of a crime.
• v. To impute or ascribe.
• v. To call to account; to challenge.
• v. (transitive) To place a burden or load on or in.
• v. (transitive) To load equipment with material required for its use, as a firearm with powder, a fire hose…
• v. (intransitive) To move forward quickly and forcefully, particularly in combat and/or on horseback.
• v. (transitive, of a hunting dog) To lie on the belly and be still. (A command given by a hunter to a dog…

cloudburst

• n. A sudden heavy rainstorm.

deal

• n. (obsolete) A division, a portion, a share.
• n. (often followed by of) An indefinite quantity or amount; a lot (now usually qualified by great or good).
• v. (transitive) To distribute among a number of recipients, to give out as one’s portion or share.
• v. (transitive) To administer or give out, as in small portions.
• v. To distribute cards to the players in a game.
• v. (baseball) To pitch.
• v. (intransitive) To have dealings or business.
• v. (intransitive) To conduct oneself, to behave.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To take action; to act.
• v. (intransitive) To trade professionally (followed by in).
• v. (transitive) To sell, especially to sell illicit drugs.
• v. (intransitive) To be concerned with.
• v. (intransitive) To handle, to manage, to cope.
• n. (archaic in general sense) An act of dealing or sharing.
• n. The distribution of cards to players; a player's turn for this.
• n. A particular instance of buying or selling, a transaction.
• n. Specifically, a transaction offered which is financially beneficial; a bargain.
• n. An agreement between parties; an arrangement.
• n. (informal) A situation, occasion, or event.
• n. (informal) A thing, an unspecified or unidentified object.
• n. (uncountable) Wood that is easy to saw (from conifers such as pine or fir).
• n. (countable) A plank of softwood (fir or pine board).
• n. (countable, archaic) A wooden board or plank, usually between 12 or 14 feet in length, traded as a commodity…
• adj. Made of deal.

downpour

• n. a heavy rain.
• v. (intransitive) To pour down; rain heavily.

fill

• v. (transitive) To occupy fully, to take up all of.
• v. (transitive) To add contents to (a container, cavity, or the like) so that it is full.
• v. To enter (something), making it full.
• v. (intransitive) To become full.
• v. (intransitive) To become pervaded with something.
• v. (transitive) To satisfy or obey (an order, request, or requirement).
• v. (transitive) To install someone, or be installed, in (a position or office), eliminating a vacancy.
• v. (transitive) To treat (a tooth) by adding a dental filling to it.
• v. (transitive) To fill or supply fully with food; to feed; to satisfy.
• v. (transitive, nautical) To trim (a yard) so that the wind blows on the after side of the sails.
• v. (transitive, slang, vulgar, of a male) To have sexual intercourse with (a female).
• n. (after a possessive) A sufficient or more than sufficient amount.
• n. An amount that fills a container.
• n. The filling of a container or area.
• n. Inexpensive material used to occupy empty spaces, especially in construction.
• n. (archaeology) Soil and/or human-created debris discovered within a cavity and exposed by excavation; fill…
• n. An embankment, as in railroad construction, to fill a hollow or ravine; also, the place which is to be…
• n. (music) A short passage, riff, or rhythmic sound that helps to keep the listener's attention during a…
• n. One of the thills or shafts of a carriage.

flock

• n. A large number of birds, especially those gathered together for the purpose of migration.
• n. A large number of animals, especially sheep or goats kept together.
• n. Those served by a particular pastor or shepherd.
• n. A large number of people.
• v. (intransitive) To congregate in or head towards a place in large numbers.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To flock to; to crowd.
• v. To treat a pool with chemicals to remove suspended particles.
• n. Coarse tufts of wool or cotton used in bedding.
• n. A lock of wool or hair.
• n. Very fine sifted woollen refuse, especially that from shearing the nap of cloths, formerly used as a coating…
• v. (transitive) To coat a surface with dense fibers or particles.

flood

• n. A (usually disastrous) overflow of water from a lake or other body of water due to excessive rainfall…
• n. (figuratively) A large number or quantity of anything appearing more rapidly than can easily be dealt…
• n. The flowing in of the tide, opposed to the ebb.
• n. A floodlight.
• n. Menstrual discharge; menses.
• n. (obsolete) Water as opposed to land.
• v. To overflow, as by water from excessive rainfall.
• v. To cover or partly fill as if by a flood.
• v. (figuratively) To provide (someone or something) with a larger number or quantity of something than cannot…
• v. (Internet, computing) To paste numerous lines of text to a chat system in order to disrupt the conversation.

hatful

• n. The amount that will fit into a hat.
• n. (soccer, Britain) A large number (usually talking about goalscoring chances).

heap

• n. A crowd; a throng; a multitude or great number of people.
• n. A pile or mass; a collection of things laid in a body, or thrown together so as to form an elevation.
• n. A great number or large quantity of things.
• n. (computing) A data structure consisting of trees in which each node is greater than all its children.
• n. (computing) Memory that is dynamically allocated.
• n. (colloquial) A dilapidated place or vehicle.
• n. (colloquial) A lot, a large amount.
• v. (transitive) To pile in a heap.
• v. (transitive) To form or round into a heap, as in measuring.
• v. (transitive) To supply in great quantity.

inundate

• v. To cover with large amounts of water; to flood.
• v. To overwhelm.

inundation

• n. The act of inundating, or the state of being inundated; an overflow; a flood; a rising and spreading of…
• n. (metaphorical) An overspreading of any kind; overflowing or superfluous abundance; a flood; a great influx.

lot

• n. A large quantity or number; a great deal.
• n. A separate portion; a number of things taken collectively.
• n. One or more items auctioned or sold as a unit, separate from other items.
• n. (informal) A number of people taken collectively.
• n. A distinct portion or plot of land, usually smaller than a field.
• n. That which happens without human design or forethought; chance; accident; hazard; fortune; fate.
• n. Anything (as a die, pebble, ball, or slip of paper) used in determining a question by chance, or without…
• n. The part, or fate, that falls to one, as it were, by chance, or without his planning.
• n. A prize in a lottery.
• n. Allotment; lottery.
• n. (definite, the lot) All members of a set; everything.
• n. An old unit of weight used in many European countries from the Middle Ages, often defined as 1/30 or 1/32…
• v. (transitive, dated) To allot; to sort; to apportion.
• v. (US, informal, dated) To count or reckon (on or upon).

mass

• n. (physical) Matter, material.
• n. A large quantity; a sum.
• n. (quantity) Large in number.
• v. (transitive) To form or collect into a mass; to form into a collective body; to bring together into masses;…
• v. (intransitive) To have a certain mass.
• adj. Involving a mass of things; concerning a large quantity or number.
• adj. Involving a mass of people; of, for, or by the masses.
• n. (Christianity) The Eucharist, now especially in Roman Catholicism.
• n. (Christianity) Celebration of the Eucharist.
• n. (Christianity, usually as the Mass) The sacrament of the Eucharist.
• n. A musical setting of parts of the mass.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To celebrate mass.

mess

• n. (obsolete) Mass; a church service.
• n. (archaic) A quantity of food set on a table at one time; provision of food for a person or party for one…
• n. A number of persons who eat together, and for whom food is prepared in common, especially military personnel…
• n. A set of four (from the old practice of dividing companies into sets of four at dinner).
• n. (US) The milk given by a cow at one milking.
• v. (intransitive) To take meals with a mess.
• v. (intransitive) To belong to a mess.
• v. (intransitive) To eat (with others).
• v. (transitive) To supply with a mess.
• n. A disagreeable mixture or confusion of things; hence, a situation resulting from blundering or from misunderstanding;…
• n. (colloquial) A large quantity or number.
• n. (euphemistic) Excrement.
• v. (transitive) To make a mess of.
• v. (transitive) To throw into confusion.
• v. (intransitive) To interfere.

mickle

• n. (chiefly Scotland) A great amount.
• n. (Scotland) A small amount.
• n. (obsolete) Important or great people as a class.
• n. (obsolete) Greatness, largeness, stature.
• pron. (now chiefly Scotland) A large amount or great extent.
• adv. (now chiefly Scotland) To a great extent.
• adv. (obsolete) Often, frequently.

mint

• v. (intransitive, provincial, Northern England, Scotland) To try, attempt; take aim.
• v. (transitive, provincial, Northern England, Scotland) To try, attempt, endeavor; to take aim at; to try…
• v. (intransitive, chiefly Scotland) To hint; suggest; insinuate.
• n. (provincial, Northern England, Scotland) Intent, purpose; an attempt, try; effort, endeavor.
• n. A building or institution where money (originally, only coins) is produced under government licence.
• n. (informal) A large amount of money. A vast sum or amount, etc.
• n. (figuratively) Any place regarded as a source of unlimited supply; the supply itself.
• v. (transitive) To reproduce (coins), usually en masse, under licence.
• v. To invent; to forge; to fabricate; to fashion.
• adj. (of condition) as new.
• adj. (numismatics) In near-perfect condition; uncirculated.
• adj. (philately) Unused with original gum; as issued originally.
• adj. (Britain, slang) Very good.
• n. Any plant in the genus Mentha in the family Lamiaceae, typically aromatic with square stems.
• n. The flavouring of the plant, either a sweet, a jelly or sauce.
• n. Any plant in the mint family, Lamiaceae.
• n. A green colour, like that of mint.
• n. A mint-flavored candy, often eaten to sweeten the smell of the breath.
• adj. Of a green colour, like that of the mint plant.

muckle

• n. (chiefly Scotland) A great amount.
• adj. (archaic outside Northumbria and Scotland) Large, massive.
• adj. (archaic outside Northumbria and Scotland) Much.
• v. (US, dialectal) To latch onto something with the mouth.
• v. (rare) To talk big; to exaggerate.

overwhelm

• v. To engulf, surge over and submerge.
• v. To overpower, crush.
• v. To overpower emotionally.
• v. To cause to surround, to cover.
• n. The state or condition of being overwhelmed.

peck

• v. To strike or pierce with the beak or bill (of a bird) or similar instrument.
• v. (transitive) To form by striking with the beak or a pointed instrument.
• v. To strike, pick, thrust against, or dig into, with a pointed instrument, especially with repeated quick…
• v. To seize and pick up with the beak, or as if with the beak; to bite; to eat; often with up.
• v. To do something in small, intermittent pieces.
• v. To type by searching for each key individually.
• v. (rare) To type in general.
• v. To kiss briefly.
• n. An act of pecking.
• n. A small kiss.
• n. One quarter of a bushel; a dry measure of eight quarts.
• n. A great deal; a large or excessive quantity.
• v. (regional) To throw.
• v. To lurch forward; especially, of a horse, to stumble after hitting the ground with the toe instead of…
• n. Discoloration caused by fungus growth or insects.
• n. Misspelling of pec.

pelter

• n. One who pelts.
• n. A pinchpenny; a mean, sordid person; a miser; a skinflint.

pile

• n. A mass of things heaped together; a heap.
• n. (figuratively, informal) A group or list of related items up for consideration, especially in some kind…
• n. A mass formed in layers.
• n. A funeral pile; a pyre.
• n. A large building, or mass of buildings.
• n. A bundle of pieces of wrought iron to be worked over into bars or other shapes by rolling or hammering…
• n. A vertical series of alternate disks of two dissimilar metals, as copper and zinc, laid up with disks…
• n. (obsolete) The reverse (or tails) of a coin.
• n. (figuratively) A list or league.
• v. (transitive, often used with the preposition "up") To lay or throw into a pile or heap; to heap up; to…
• v. (transitive) To cover with heaps; or in great abundance; to fill or overfill; to load.
• v. (transitive) To add something to a great number.
• v. (transitive) (of vehicles) To create a hold-up.
• v. (transitive, military) To place (guns, muskets, etc.) together in threes so that they can stand upright,…
• n. (obsolete) A dart; an arrow.
• n. The head of an arrow or spear.
• n. A large stake, or piece of pointed timber, steel etc., driven into the earth or sea-bed for the support…
• n. (heraldry) One of the ordinaries or subordinaries having the form of a wedge, usually placed palewise,…
• v. (transitive) To drive piles into; to fill with piles; to strengthen with piles.
• n. (usually in the plural) A hemorrhoid.
• n. Hair, especially when very fine or short; the fine underfur of certain animals. (Formerly countable, now…
• n. The raised hairs, loops or strands of a fabric; the nap of a cloth.
• n. An atomic pile; an early form of nuclear reactor.

plenty

• n. A more than adequate amount.
• pron. More than enough.
• adv. More than sufficiently.
• adv. (colloquial) Used as an intensifier, very.
• adj. (obsolete) plentiful.

pot

• n. A flat-bottomed vessel (usually metal) used for cooking food.
• n. Various similar open-topped vessels, particularly.
• n. (slang) Ruin or deterioration.
• n. (historical) An iron hat with a broad brim worn as a helmet.
• n. (rail transport) A pot-shaped non-conducting (usually ceramic) stand that supports an electrified rail…
• n. (gambling) The money available to be won in a hand of poker or a round of other games of chance; (figuratively)…
• n. (Britain, horse-racing, slang) A favorite: a heavily-backed horse.
• n. (sports) The act of causing a ball to fall into a pocket in cue sports such as billiards.
• n. (slang) Clipping of potbelly: a pot-shaped belly, a paunch.
• n. (slang) Clipping of potshot: a haphazard shot; an easy or cheap shot.
• n. (chiefly East Midlands, Yorkshire) A plaster cast.
• n. (historical) Alternative form of pott: a former size of paper, 12.5 × 15 inches.
• v. To put (something) into a pot.
• v. To preserve by bottling or canning.
• v. (cue sports) To cause a ball to fall into a pocket.
• v. (cue sports) To be capable of being potted.
• v. (transitive) To shoot with a firearm.
• v. (intransitive, dated) To take a pot shot, or haphazard shot, with a firearm.
• v. (transitive, colloquial) To secure; gain; win; bag.
• v. (Britain) To send someone to gaol, expeditiously.
• v. (obsolete, dialect, Britain) To tipple; to drink.
• v. (transitive) To drain.
• v. (transitive, Britain) To seat a person, usually a young child, onto a potty or toilet, typically during…
• v. (chiefly East Midlands) To apply a plaster cast to a broken limb.
• n. (slang, uncountable) Marijuana.
• n. (slang, electronics) A simple electromechanical device used to control resistance or voltage (often to…
• n. (role-playing games) Clipping of potion.

raft

• n. A flat structure made of planks, barrels etc., that floats on water, and is used for transport, emergencies…
• n. A flat-bottomed inflatable craft for floating or drifting on water.
• n. A thick crowd of seabirds or sea mammals.
• n. (US) A collection of logs, fallen trees, etc. which obstructs navigation in a river.
• v. (transitive) to convey on a raft.
• v. (transitive) to make into a raft.
• v. (intransitive) to travel by raft.
• n. A large (but unspecified) number, a lot.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of reave.

rain

• n. Condensed water falling from a cloud.
• n. (figuratively) Any matter moving or falling, usually through air, and especially if liquid or otherwise…
• n. (figuratively) An instance of particles or larger pieces of matter moving or falling through air.
• v. (impersonal) To have rain fall from the sky.
• v. To fall as or like rain.
• v. (intransitive) To fall like rain.
• v. (transitive) To issue (something) in large quantities.

rainfall

• n. (meteorology) the amount of rain that falls on a single occasion.

saddle

• n. A seat (tack) for a rider placed on the back of a horse or other animal.
• n. An item of harness (harness saddle) placed on the back of a horse or other animal.
• n. A seat on a bicycle, motorcycle, etc.
• n. A cut of meat that includes both loins and part of the backbone.
• n. A low point, in the shape of a saddle, between two hills.
• n. (mining) A formation of gold-bearing quartz occurring along the crest of an anticlinal fold, especially…
• n. The raised floorboard in a doorway.
• n. (construction) A small tapered or sloped area structure that helps channel surface water to drains.
• n. (nautical) A block of wood, usually fastened to one spar and shaped to receive the end of another.
• n. (engineering) A part, such as a flange, which is hollowed out to fit upon a convex surface and serve as…
• n. The clitellus of an earthworm.
• n. Any of the saddle-like markings on a boa constrictor.
• v. To put a saddle on an animal.
• v. To get into a saddle.
• v. (idiomatic) To burden or encumber.
• v. (idiomatic) To give a responsibility to someone.

sight

• n. (in the singular) The ability to see.
• n. The act of seeing; perception of objects by the eye; view.
• n. Something seen.
• n. Something worth seeing; a spectacle.
• n. A device used in aiming a projectile, through which the person aiming looks at the intended target.
• n. A small aperture through which objects are to be seen, and by which their direction is settled or ascertained.
• n. (now colloquial) a great deal, a lot; frequently used to intensify a comparative.
• n. In a drawing, picture, etc., that part of the surface, as of paper or canvas, which is within the frame…
• n. (obsolete) The instrument of seeing; the eye.
• n. Mental view; opinion; judgment.
• v. (transitive) To register visually.
• v. (transitive) To get sight of (something).
• v. (transitive) To apply sights to; to adjust the sights of; also, to give the proper elevation and direction…
• v. (transitive) To take aim at.

slew

• n. (US) A large amount.
• n. The act, or process of slaying.
• n. A device used for slaying.
• n. A change of position.
• v. (transitive, nautical) To rotate or turn something about its axis.
• v. (transitive) To veer a vehicle.
• v. (transitive) To insert extra ticks or skip some ticks of a clock to slowly correct its time.
• v. (intransitive) To pivot.
• v. (intransitive) To skid.
• v. (transitive, rail transport) to move something (usually a railway line) sideways.
• v. (transitive, Britain, slang) To make a public mockery of someone through insult or wit.
• v. simple past tense of slay.
• n. A wet place; a river inlet.

soaker

• n. One who, or that which, soaks.
• n. A person suffering from alcoholism.
• n. A kind of knitted woollen diaper.

spate

• n. A river flood; an overflow or inundation.
• n. A sudden rush or increase.

stack

• n. (heading) A pile.
• n. A smokestack.
• n. (heading) In digital computing.
• n. (mathematics) A generalization of schemes in algebraic geometry and of sheaves.
• n. (geology) A coastal landform, consisting of a large vertical column of rock in the sea.
• n. (library) Compactly spaced bookshelves used to house large collections of books.
• n. (figuratively) A large amount of an object.
• n. (military) A pile of rifles or muskets in a cone shape.
• n. (poker) The amount of money a player has on the table.
• n. (heading) In architecture.
• n. (Australia, slang) A fall or crash, a prang.
• n. (bodybuilding) A blend of various dietary supplements or anabolic steroids with supposed synergistic benefits.
• v. (transitive) To arrange in a stack, or to add to an existing stack.
• v. (transitive, card games) To arrange the cards in a deck in a particular manner.
• v. (transitive, poker) To take all the money another player currently has on the table.
• v. (transitive) To deliberately distort the composition of (an assembly, committee, etc.).
• v. (transitive, US, Australia, slang) To crash; to fall.

submerge

• v. (intransitive) To sink out of sight.
• v. (transitive) To put into a liquid; to immerse; to plunge into and keep in.
• v. (transitive) To be engulfed in or with something.

swamp

• n. A piece of wet, spongy land; low ground saturated with water; soft, wet ground which may have a growth…
• n. A type of wetland that stretches for vast distances, and is home to many creatures who have adapted specifically…
• v. To drench or fill with water.
• v. To overwhelm; to make too busy, or overrun the capacity of.
• v. (figuratively) To plunge into difficulties and perils; to overwhelm; to ruin; to wreck.

torrent

• n. A violent flow, as of water, lava, etc.; a stream suddenly raised and running rapidly, as down a precipice.
• n. (figuratively) A large amount or stream of something.
• adj. Rolling or rushing in a rapid stream.
• n. (Internet, file sharing) A set of files obtainable through a peer-to-peer network, especially BitTorrent.
• v. (Internet slang, transitive) To download in a torrent.

wad

• n. An amorphous, compact mass.
• n. A substantial pile (normally of money).
• n. A soft plug or seal, particularly as used between the powder and pellets in a shotgun cartridge.
• n. (slang) A sandwich.
• n. (slang, vulgar) An ejaculation of semen.
• n. (mineralogy) Any black manganese oxide or hydroxide mineral rich rock in the oxidized zone of various…
• v. To crumple or crush into a compact, amorphous shape or ball.
• v. (Ulster) To wager.
• v. To insert or force a wad into.
• v. To stuff or line with some soft substance, or wadding, like cotton.

waterspout

• n. a tornado that occurs over a body of water.
• n. a channel through which water is discharged, especially from the gutters of a roof.