The deluge was a notable first experiment in baptism which washed away the sins (and sinners) of the world.

High in the citadel the monstrous frame / pours forth an armed deluge to the day, / and Sinon, puffed with triumph, spreads the flame. / Part throng the gates, part block each narrow way; / such hosts Mycenae sends, such thousands to the fray."

The Roman world was overwhelmed by a deluge of Barbarians.

The flood of 1342 was the biggest deluge in the history of central Europe.

The town was deluged with tourists in summer.

Force wins a footing, and, the foremost slain, / in, like a deluge, pours the Danaan train.

Safe could Antenor pass th' Illyrian shore / through Danaan hosts, and realms Liburnian gain, / and climb Timavus and her springs explore, / where through nine mouths, with roaring surge, the main / bursts from the sounding rocks and deluges the plain."

After us, the Deluge.

The teacher was deluged with questions.

“The constant deluge of information can very rapidly shift you from the realm of ‘informed, proactive citizen’ to ‘on-fire garbage can crammed with so much content it ceases to do anything other than feed your anxiety,’” she says.