Difference between Deluge and Cloudburst

DELUGE vs CLOUDBURST: NOUN

The rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land
An overwhelming number or amount
A great flood.
A heavy downpour.
Something that overwhelms as if by a great flood.
In the Bible, the great flood that occurred in the time of Noah.
Any overflowing of water; an inundation; a flood; specifically, the great flood or overflowing of the earth (called the universal deluge) which, according to the account in Genesis, occurred in the days of Noah, or any of the similar floods found in the traditions of most ancient peoples, accompanied by a nearly total destruction of life. See flood.
Anything analogous to an inundation; anything that overwhelms or floods.
An overwhelming amount of something.
A great flood or rain.
Fig.: Anything which overwhelms, or causes great destruction.
A heavy rain
A washing away; an overflowing of the land by water; an inundation; a flood; specifically, The Deluge, the great flood in the days of Noah (Gen. vii.).

To overwhelm with a large number or amount; swamp.
To overrun with water; inundate.
To overwhelm, as with a deluge; to cover; to overspread; to overpower; to submerge; to destroy
To overflow with water; to inundate; to overwhelm.

As with a liquid
Fill quickly beyond capacity
To pour over in a deluge; overwhelm with a flood; overflow; inundate; drown.
To overrun like a flood; pour over in overwhelming numbers: as, the northern nations deluged the Roman empire with their armies.
To overwhelm; cause to sink under the weight of a general or spreading calamity.
To suffer a deluge; be deluged.

Onslaught, Barrage, Flooding, Flood out, Waterspout, Submerge, Soaker, Swamp, Overwhelm, Cloudburst, Inundate, Inundation, Flood, Downpour, Torrent

Flash flood, Mudslide, Snowstorm, Monsoon, Duststorm, Storm, Thundershower, Thunderstorm, Hailstorm, Rainstorm, Soaker, Waterspout, Torrent, Deluge, Downpour

Blizzard, Onslaught, Barrage, Flooding, Waterspout, Submerge, Soaker, Swamp, Overwhelm, Cloudburst, Inundate, Inundation, Flood, Downpour, Torrent

Flash flood, Mudslide, Snowstorm, Monsoon, Duststorm, Storm, Thundershower, Thunderstorm, Hailstorm, Rainstorm, Soaker, Waterspout, Torrent, Deluge, Downpour

One day the secretary is in Central Park when a cloudburst occurs and she ends up meeting a handsome young soldier from Tennessee.
This opal and pearl cloudburst earring is a cluster of delicate freshwater pearls hangs from a brilliant opal.
The first four winners came in just right, but a sudden, heavy cloudburst turned the track from fast to sloppy between races.
If you were not sure about her being pregnant, there is the possibility of a false pregnancy, which ends in a cloudburst.
Then the thunder of its roaring subsided by degrees and by sundown the cloudburst was past.
The town of Bunsnuir, Siskyou county, California, experienced a cloudburst Sunday night that wrecked six houses and delayed railroad traffic many hours.
Such as flood, cyclones, hailstorms, cloudburst, heat and cold waves, snow avalanches, droughts, sea erosion, thunder and lightning.
One day my friend and I were caught in a cloudburst and soaked to the skin.
Source appeared to originate as the stream chose new routes through old cloudburst deposits along much of its route.
Acts of nature: lightning, flood, torrential rain, cloudburst, or tornado.