çok şiddetli yağmur

Turkish - English

Definition of çok şiddetli yağmur in Turkish English dictionary

deluge

To flood with water

An overwhelming amount of something

The rock concert was a deluge of sound.

A great flood or rain

The deluge continued for hours, drenching the land and slowing traffic to a halt.

{v} to drown, overwhelm, overrun, cover

to overwhelm with a flood of water

To overwhelm, as with a deluge; to cover; to overspread; to overpower; to submerge; to destroy; as, the northern nations deluged the Roman empire with their armies; the land is deluged with woe

Fig

To overwhelm

fill or cover completely, usually with water

fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid; "the basement was inundated after the storm"; "The images flooded his mind"

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charge someone with too many tasks

To overflow with water; to inundate; to overwhelm

After me the Deluge ["Après moi le Déluge "] When I am dead the deluge may come for aught I care Generally ascribed to Prince Metternich, but the Prince borrowed it from Mme Pompadour, who laughed off all the remonstrances of ministers at her extravagance by saying, "Après nous le déluge" (Ruin, if you like, when we are dead and gone)

A sudden flooding or inundation of water

the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land; "plains fertilized by annual inundations"

fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid; "the basement was inundated after the storm"; "The images flooded his mind

Hyphenation

çok şid·det·li yağ·mur