cloudburst
See also: cloud-burst and cloud burst
English
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Etymology
Pronunciation
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Audio (AU): (file) - Hyphenation: cloud‧burst
Noun
cloudburst (plural cloudbursts)
- A sudden heavy rainstorm.
- 1899, Edith Wharton, "A Cup of Cold Water" in The Greater Inclination:
- [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.
- 1908, Stewart Edward White, chapter 38, in The Riverman:
- A cloudburst in the China Creek district followed by continued heavy rains was responsible for the increased water.
- 1936 Aug. 17, "Miscellany," Time (retrieved 20 May 2014):
- 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.
- 2007 Feb. 25, Norman Howard, "Devotion, chapter 1" (book excerpt), New York Times (retrieved 20 May 2014):
- [H]e walked across the lawn, wet from a fleeting late-afternoon cloudburst, the first rain in a month.
- 1899, Edith Wharton, "A Cup of Cold Water" in The Greater Inclination:
Synonyms
Translations
sudden heavy rainstorm
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