cloudburst
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation 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.
- 1936 Aug. 17, "[http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,756493,00.html 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:
- French: averse
- German: Wolkenbruch
- Italian: nubifragio, scroscio, rovescio, acquazzone
- Portuguese: aguaceiro
- Russian: ли́вень
- Spanish: aguacero, gota fría
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