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a flood with ambition, water that decided drowning the world was a personality.
means A great flood or overwhelming downpour of water — or, by extension, an overwhelming rush of anything that arrives all at once.
from From Latin 'diluvium,' a flood, built on 'diluere,' to wash away (the 'di-' of 'apart' plus 'luere,' to wash). It reached English through Old French 'deluge,' and in older usage often meant THE flood — the biblical inundation that scrubbed the world clean.
- word root
- From Latin diluvium, meaning to wash away utterly.
- flood myths
- Nearly every ancient culture has a deluge story.
- million-year rains
- Early Earth may have rained nonstop for millennia.
- modern use
- Now describes emails as readily as ruinous water.