[{"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["a great flood of water; inundation ; flood .", "a drenching rain; downpour .", "anything that overwhelms like a flood:a deluge of mail.Synonyms: catastrophe , cataclysm", "the Deluge. flood(def3) flood(def3)."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb (used with object)", "List Items": ["to flood; inundate .", "to overrun; overwhelm :She was deluged with congratulatory letters."]}]