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Definition: DELUGED |
DELUGEDImperative & past participle1. Of Deluge |
Date "DELUGED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1759. (references) |
Crosswords: DELUGED |
| Specialty definitions using "DELUGED": Predestination. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | He has deluged his country with innocent blood, disregarding the most sacred ties of affection, turning father against son, son against brother, in a bloodbath that defies description. (Shaka Zulu; writing credit: Joshua Sinclair) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | PREDESTINATION, n. The doctrine that all things occur according to programme. This doctrine should not be confused with that of foreordination, which means that all things are programmed, but does not affirm their occurrence, that being only an implication from other doctrines by which this is entailed. The difference is great enough to have deluged Christendom with ink, to say nothing of the gore. With the distinction of the two doctrines kept well in mind, and a reverent belief in both, one may hope to escape perdition if spared. |
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Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | A strict adherence to this policy has kept us aloof from the perplexing questions that now agitate the European world and have more than once deluged those countries with blood. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | When the earth shook and fires raged in California, when the Mississippi deluged the farmlands of the Midwest, when a century's bitterest cold swept from North Dakota to Newport News, it seemed as though the world itself was coming apart at the seams. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "DELUGED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 80.65% of the time. "DELUGED" is used about 31 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 80.65% | 25 | 69,787 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 12.9% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 6.45% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 31 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
deluged | 8 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "DELUGED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Chinese | 淹没 (Deluging, Drown, Drowned, Drowning, Overwhelm, overwhelmed, Overwhelming, submerge, submerged, submerging). (various references) | ||||
German | überschwemmte (flooded, inundated, swamped). (various references) | ||||
Manx | thooillit (inundated), baiht (drowned, faint, faint of colour, foundered, inundated, invested, soggy, submerged, sunk). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | elugedday | ||||
Misspellings | |
"DELUGED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dekuji, Delage, Delagi, Delagoa, delge, deludged, deluga, deluted, deluxed, desloughed, dilaged, diluge, eluge. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-d-e-e-g-l-u" | |
-1 letter: delude, deluge, dueled, eluded, gelded. | |
-2 letters: deled, edged, elude, glede, gleed, glued, ledge, luged. | |
-3 letters: deed, dele, dude, duel, edge, geed, geld, gled, glee, glue, gude, leud, lude, luge. | |
-4 letters: dee, del, dud, due, dug, eel, eld, ged, gee, gel, gul, led, lee, leg, leu, lug. | |
-5 letters: de, ed, el. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-d-e-e-g-l-u" | |
+1 letter: cudgeled. | |
+2 letters: cudgelled, unfledged. | |
+3 letters: becudgeled, bludgeoned. | |
+4 letters: becudgelled, deregulated, lifeguarded, undelegated. | |
+5 letters: overindulged. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 45 4C 55 47 45 44 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. . .-.. ..- --. . -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01000101 01001100 01010101 01000111 01000101 01000100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D E L U G E D |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0045 004C 0055 0047 0045 0044 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)38394655413938 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Quotations: Non-fiction | 5. Quotations: Speeches 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
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