torrent
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4.4
- noun
- /ˈtɔrənt/
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torrente
- The viewscreen now shows two transport ships trapped like insects in the violent torrent of energy.
A lifetime is like a flash of lightning in the sky, rushing by like a torrent down a steep mountain.
- A lifetime is like a flash of lightning in the sky, rushing by like a torrent down a steep mountain.
Examples
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Had it been knocked away in the torrent, he surely would have drowned.
Fiction book (2001) -
And these river crossings are sometimes with a torrent of strong currents, water gushing.
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By the time they left at sunrise the next morning, it was a torrent.
Fiction book (2002) -
A lifetime is like a flash of lightning in the sky, rushing by like a torrent down the steep mountain.
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The hillside vanished in a torrent of white thunder.
Fiction book (2002) -
So too, the din of the boiling torrent that devoured the land as it rushed toward the big river.
Fiction book (1994) -
During the rains, water runs off the slope quickly, swelling the rivers temporarily into impassable torrents.
Academic text (1993) -
They turn into raging torrents, and carve giant canyons through the rock
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Jonas could hear torrents cascading through the confines of a nearby aluminum downspout.
Fiction book (1992) -
After the heavy rain, a torrent of water flowed down the mountainside, sweeping away everything in its path.
Synonyms
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7.9
A sudden large flow of water after heavy rain
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3.0
A sudden very heavy fall of rain that soaks everything
A sudden large flow of feelings or help from many people
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Etymology
The word torrent goes back to the Latin torrēre ('to boil' or 'burn') and the idea of a fast, seething flow; you can see the same root in torrential. So a torrent is a strong, fast-moving stream of water that rushes violently.