Word · Frequency #18492
deluged
淹没
deluged is the past of deluge.
to flood with water
- 1.
To flood with water.
用水淹没
- 2.
To overwhelm.
压倒
使难以承受；使不知所措；用水淹没；压倒；使泛滥
In use
Heavy rain deluged the streets, turning them into rivers.
After the announcement, the company was deluged with questions from reporters.
If you keep deluging the server with requests, it will crash.
Verb forms
base deluge · third person deluges · -ing deluging · past deluged · past participle deluged
规则变化动词，过去式和过去分词加-ed。
Connections
Collocations
- be deluged with
- 被…淹没；被…压垮
- The office was deluged with applications.办公室收到了大量的申请。
- deluge someone with questions
- 用问题围攻某人；接连向某人提问
- Fans deluged the singer with questions after the concert.音乐会结束后，歌迷们接连向这位歌手提问。
- deluge someone with emails
- 给某人发送大量电子邮件；使某人收到大量邮件
- Customers deluged the support team with emails about the outage.顾客们就服务中断一事向支持团队发送了大量电子邮件。
- deluge the market with
- 用…充斥市场；向市场大量投放
- The retailer deluged the market with discounted goods.这家零售商向市场大量投放打折商品。
- be deluged with work
- 被工作压得喘不过气来；有做不完的工作
- She was deluged with work during the busy season.在旺季，她被工作压得喘不过气来。
Learner notes
Memory Tip
把 deluge 拆成 de + luge（雪橇）：雪橇从雪坡冲下，像洪水一样汹涌，把一切淹没、压倒。
Context & Register
语域：formal 常见场景：formal writing、news reports deluge 作动词时表示“淹没”或“使…难以承受”，多用于正式或书面语，如新闻报道和文学作品。日常口语中表示“淹没、压倒”更常用 flood 或 overwhelm。
Grammar Note
常与介词with连用，常用于被动结构'be deluged with'表示被大量...淹没
Pronunciation & Spelling
No common word rhymes exactly with deluge /ˈdɛljuːdʒ/. The -uge lookalikes split into two sound groups: huge, refuge, subterfuge, and centrifuge end in /juːdʒ/, matching deluge's final syllable; luge and rouge end in /uːʒ/ and do not match.
Usage priority
Collins 词频等级为 1，建议结合例句记忆，而不是只背中文释义。
Learn the forms together
页面下方列出了常见词形变化。学习时注意它们在句子中的语法位置。
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