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deluge

 
 
/ˈdeljuːdʒ/ verb

Translation

be deluged with/by sth › to receive very large amounts of something suddenly
birşeyden aniden çok sayıda gelmesi, bastırması
Our switchboard was deluged with calls last night.1812
(Definition of deluge verb from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary English-Turkish © Cambridge University Press)

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