Deluge

α. To cover or overflow with water; to inundate; to drown; to sink completely under water. "Implacable, till delug'd by thy foam." Philips. To overwhelm with any moving, spreading body; as, the country is deluged with greenbacks. - To overpower, or cause to sink under universal calamity. "Corruption, like a general flood, shall deluge all." - Pope. Delusion, ( de -luzhon,) n. [Fr.; Lat. delusio , from deludo.] Act of deluding or speciously deceiving; deception; mental illusion or misleading. - State or condition of being deluded, deceived, or misled. - A false belief; chimera; error; illusion; fallacy.