Usually means: Heavy downpours of excessive rain.
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  1. deluges: Merriam-Webster
  2. deluges: Collins English Dictionary
  3. deluges: Vocabulary.com
  4. deluges: Wordnik
  5. deluges: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. deluges: Wiktionary
  7. deluges: Dictionary.com
  8. deluges: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. deluges: TheFreeDictionary.com
  10. Deluges: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

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  1. deluges: Legal dictionary

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  1. deluges: Encyclopedia

(Note: See deluge as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Deluge)

noun:  A great flood or rain.
noun:  An overwhelming amount of something; anything that overwhelms or causes great destruction.
noun:  (firefighting) A system for flooding or drenching a space, container, or area with water in an emergency to prevent or extinguish a fire.
verb:  (transitive) To flood with water.
verb:  (transitive) To overwhelm.
noun:  (Abrahamic religion) The flood taking place in the story of Noah found in the Bible (Genesis) and Qur'an.
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