2 a very large volume of something, more than can be managed:
The newspaper received a deluge of complaints about the article.
3 a very large amount of rain or water
4 to send a very large volume of something to someone:
The senator’s office was deluged with calls asking for clarification.
We are deluged by statutory regulations and it is a matter of very great concern to the business community.
We have been deluged with social studies and economic advice.
We have not been deluged with letters of support, but we have certainly had almost no evidence of hostility to change.
The ombudsman should not be deluged by day-to-day matters of the supervision of individual pensions schemes.
Tinned herring have been thoroughly spoiled for anyone with any sense of taste by being deluged in cheap tomato sauce.
He is deluged with letters from people in this country who want help.
No one wishes to see the commission deluged with work on sentence cases to the detriment of its work on possible wrongful convictions.
In the light of that, one can understand why this place has been deluged by 60,000 workers today.
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