Cloudburst

Definitions

A sudden heavy rainstorm.

Equivalents

Examples

“[B]ut the sound⟳ . . . expressed an utter abandonment to grief; not the cloud-burst of some passing emotion, but the slow down-pour of a whole heaven of sorrow.”

“A cloudburst in the China Creek district followed by continued heavy rains was responsible for the increased water.”

“In Uniontown, Pa., John Walchesky & family rushed from their house when lightning set⟳ it afire, rushed in again when a cloudburst put⟳ out the blaze.”

“[H]e walked across the lawn, wet⟳ from a fleeting late-afternoon cloudburst, the first rain⟳ in a month.”

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