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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cause to become damp, moist |
| Synonyms: | bathe, damp, dampen, deluge, dip, douse, drench, drown, hose, humidify, imbue, irrigate, moisten, rinse, saturate, soak, sop, souse, splash, spray, sprinkle, steep, wash, water |
| Antonyms: | dehydrate, dry |
| Main Entry: | cataract |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | waterfall |
| Synonyms: | deluge, flood, rapids, torrent |
| Notes: | a turbulent, rock-obstructed river area is rapid(s) and steep rapids make a cataract |
| Main Entry: | flash flood |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sudden rainfall |
| Synonyms: | deluge, freshet, heavy rainfall, torrent, wall of water, waterflood |
| Main Entry: | overflowing |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | overflow |
| Synonyms: | copiousness, cornucopia, deluge, exuberance, freshet, inundation, profusion, redundance, redundancy, spate, spillway, superabundance |
| Main Entry: | alluvion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | flood |
| Synonyms: | Niagara, cascade, cataclysm, deluge, downpour, gush, inundation, overflow, torrent |
| Main Entry: | freshet |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | flood |
| Synonyms: | alluvion, cataclysm, cataract, deluge, downpour, flux, gush, inundation, outpouring, overflow, spate, stream, surge, torrent |
| Main Entry: | jam-pack |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | crowd |
| Synonyms: | bear*, bunch, bundle, chock, cluster, congest, congregate, cram, crush, deluge, elbow, flock, gather, huddle, jam*, justle, load, mass, mob, muster*, overcrowd, pack, pack like sardines, pack ‘em in, pile, push*, ram, sardine, shove, squash, squeeze*, squish, stream, stuff*, surge, swamp, swarm, throng, top off, troop |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | outpour |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | spate |
| Synonyms: | deluge, efflux, flood, flurry, gush, outflow, outpouring, run, rush, string, succession, torrent, wave |
| Main Entry: | plenitude |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | plenty |
| Synonyms: | abundance, affluence, avalanche, bounteousness, bountifulness, capacity, copiousness, cornucopia, deluge*, enough, flood*, fruitfulness, full house, fund, good deal, great deal, heaps, loads, lots, luxury, mass, masses, mine*, mountains, oodles*, opulence, peck, piles, plenteousness, plethora, profusion, prosperity, quantity, stacks, store, sufficiency, torrent*, volume, wealth |
| Notes: | plenitude is indicated when the amount in question is of something abstract, whereas concrete amounts motivate the use of 'plenty' (both from Latin plenus 'full') |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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