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were deluging
noun
A great flood or rain.
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The regulation was adopted amid widespread concern that Internet users were deluging Web sites with malicious and defamatory comments and false rumors; in a few cases, such statements were blamed in the suicides of celebrities.
By mid-morning concerned savers were deluging the bank's retail division Kaupthing Edge's call centre keen to establish whether the bank was still trading, and in many cases to move their money.
By early April, Ferraro said people were deluging her with negative comments and trying to get her removed from one of the boards she was on: "This has been the worst three weeks of my life".
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Were deluged by Hudson River tramps.
The sons were deluged with gyroscopic toys.
One person died and 10,000 homes and businesses were deluged.
As usual, the Fathers were deluged with literature beforehand.
Only two years ago, many new graduates were deluged with job offers.
When the "mini-bonds" stopped paying out, local regulators were deluged with complaints.
More than 300 houses, a school and a college campus were deluged.
"When the book came out, we were deluged with hate mail," Stone says.
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