DELUGE

Deluge

The term Deluge denotes a series of mid-17th century campaigns in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. In a wider sense it applies to the period between the Khmelnytsky Uprising of 1648 and the Truce of Andrusovo in 1667, thus comprising the Polish–Lithuanian theatres of the Russo-Polish and Second Northern Wars. In a stricter sense, the term refers to the Swedish invasion and occupation of the Commonwealth as a theater of the Second Northern War only ; In Poland and Lithuania this period is called the Swedish Deluge, and the term deluge was popularized by Henryk Sienkiewicz, in his 1886 book The Deluge.

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deluge

Noun

  1. A great flood or rain.
    The deluge continued for hours, drenching the land and slowing traffic to a halt.
  2. An overwhelming amount of something; anything that overwhelms or causes great destruction.
    The rock concert was a deluge of sound.

Verb

  1. To flood with water.
  2. To overwhelm.
    After the announcement, they were deluged with requests for more information.


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