Synonyms:
flood, inundation, deluge, torrent
Meaning: an overwhelming number or amount; "a flood of requests"; "a torrent of abuse"
Usage examples
"It is the deluge!"
It certainly is a menagerie, for these remains were not brought here by a deluge.
Hence the deluge of half-observations, of verbal ideas, and unassimilated "knowledge" which afflicts the world.
After a prolonged struggle, which brought on the general deluge and the destruction of the world, he won the victory.
At that same period North America was discovered, as if it had been kept in reserve by the Deity, and had just risen from beneath the waters of the deluge.
About noon the eastern horizon would become suddenly black, and when this had spread to the zenith we heard the rush of a mighty wind sweeping through the forest, and the crash of falling trees, and then down fell the deluge.