Torrent
['tɒr(ə)nt] or ['tɔrənt]
Definition
(noun.) a violently fast stream of water (or other liquid); 'the houses were swept away in the torrent'.
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Definition
(n.) A violent stream, as of water, lava, or the like; a stream suddenly raised and running rapidly, as down a precipice.
(n.) Fig.: A violent or rapid flow; a strong current; a flood; as, a torrent of vices; a torrent of eloquence.
(n.) Rolling or rushing in a rapid stream.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Rapid stream, strong current.[2]. Rapid flow.
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Definition
n. a rushing stream: a strong or turbulent current.—adj. rushing in a stream.—ns. Torr′ent-bow a bow of prismatic colours formed above the spray of a torrent; Torr′ent-duck a merganser of genus Merganetta found in the swift water-courses of the Andes.—adj. Torren′tial of the nature of a torrent produced by the agency of rapid streams: overwhelmingly voluble.—n. Torrential′ity.—adv. Torren′tially.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream that you are looking upon a rushing torrent, denotes that you will have unusual trouble and anxiety.
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Examples
- Black was the river as a torrent of ink; lights glanced on it from the piles of building round, ships rocked on its bosom. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Caution, thought, restraint, prudence, are all swept away by the torrent. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Elinor could no longer witness this torrent of unresisted grief in silence. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- The heavy rains of a few days before had swelled the stream into a mad torrent, impassable except on bridges. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- For a moment she thought that she could stem the torrent, and that Raymond could be induced to hear reason from her. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Only minds of extraordinary toughness and originality could resist such a torrent of suggestion. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The old man listened in astonishment to this lava-torrent of words which swept everything before it. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- At the opening of the bridge, one portion of which was for a railway, the shriek of the locomotive and the roar of the train mingled with the roar of the wild torrent 250 feet below. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The road was a torrent of muddy snow-water. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- The outer door would not open to our knock, and nothing more substantial than a torrent of bad language came from behind it. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Soldiers were being swept beneath the boiling torrent, never to rise. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- This fixation has brought down upon the socialists a torrent of abuse in which atheism and materialism are prevailing epithets. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- I was tempted to cease struggling with him--to rush down the torrent of his will into the gulf of his existence, and there lose my own. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- This was the figure that now started forward, and burst into an animated torrent of words. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- The tears did not glisten there, as they did in Leinster's; but they fell in torrents as he attempted to take leave of me. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- The rain fell in torrents. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- The stage was fifteen miles long, the night was dark, the wind high, and the rain pouring in torrents. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- The following morning the rain poured down in torrents, and thick mists hid the summits of the mountains. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- I reeled beneath their blows which fell upon me in perfect torrents; my head swam; all was black, and I went down beneath them to oblivion. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- It rained in torrents during the night of the 13th and the fore part of the day of the 14th. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The atmosphere was dense and heavy, while the rain fell in torrents on the heads of the mourners, and the wind whistled mournfully among the trees. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- At the fourth attempt to encounter him it began to rain in torrents, and she turned back. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- It was very cold and the rain fell in torrents. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- There were no horses to be procured, and I must return by the lake; but the wind was unfavourable, and the rain fell in torrents. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- During the night rain fell in torrents and our troops were exposed to the storm without shelter. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The genius which gave freedom to America and scattered torrents of light upon Europe, is returned to the bosom of the Divinity! Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- A gigantic battle against floods and torrents, pestilence and swamps, tropical rivers, jungles and rock-ribbed mountains had been fought--and won! Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The atmosphere now began to threaten rain, which soon fell in torrents. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
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