deluge
noun
a great flood of water; inundation; flood.
is deluging
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present progressiveof deluge (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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But, on the other hand, I think it must be confessed that a great deal of the fiction which is deluging the market is the veriest trash, or worse than trash.
From The Library and Society Reprints of Papers and Addresses by Arthur Elmore Bostwick
A sullen summer shower, without a smile in it, is deluging gardens and lawns, tender flowers and graveled walks, and is blotting out angrily all the glories of the landscape.
From Airy Fairy Lilian by Margaret Wolfe Hamilton (AKA Duchess)
