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• spate — noun a) A river flood; an overflow or inundation. Only let your language match your subject, then it will be shapely and free; but take care all the time not to overwhelm your work in a spate of words to attain the fluency of Isaeus; and that it… …   Wiktionary

• spate — /speɪt / (say spayt) noun 1. a sudden, almost overwhelming, outpouring: a spate of words. 2. a flood or inundation; a state of flood. 3. a sudden heavy downpour of rain. {Middle English; origin obscure} …  

• spate — n *flood, deluge, inundation, torrent, cataract Analogous words: *flow, stream, current, tide: *succession, progression, series …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

• spate — [spāt] n. [ME (northern dial.) < ?] 1. Chiefly Brit. a) a flash flood b) a sudden, heavy rain 2. an unusually large outpouring, as of words …   English World dictionary

• spate — /spayt/, n. 1. a sudden, almost overwhelming, outpouring: a spate of angry words. 2. Brit. a. a flood or inundation. b. a river flooding its banks. c. a sudden or heavy rainstorm. [1400 50; late ME (north) < ?] * * * …   Universalium

• spate — Synonyms and related words: Niagara, abundance, acres, affluence, afflux, affluxion, ample sufficiency, ampleness, amplitude, army, asperse, avalanche, bags, barrels, batch, befoul, belch, bespatter, bespot, blacken, bonanza, bountifulness,… …   Moby Thesaurus

• spate — I Cleveland Dialect List (pronounced [speeat]): a heavy shower II North Country (Newcastle) Words a great fall of rain …   English dialects glossary

• in spate — (of a river) in a swollen, fast flowing condition • • • Main Entry: ↑spate * * * in spate phrase if a river is in spate, it is much deeper than usual and the water in it is moving very fast, for example after snow melts in the spring Thesaurus:… …   Useful english dictionary

• fluency — Synonyms and related words: Atticism, abundance, affluence, afflux, affluxion, amplitude, appropriateness, articulateness, big mouth, candor, chasteness, chastity, chylifaction, chylification, clarity, classicalism, classicism, clearness, cloud… …   Moby Thesaurus

• gush — Synonyms and related words: abound, abundance, access, accession, accretion, accrual, accruement, accumulation, addition, advance, affluence, afflux, affluxion, aggrandizement, ample sufficiency, ampleness, amplification, amplitude, anabasis,… …   Moby Thesaurus

• glibness — Synonyms and related words: articulateness, big mouth, blandness, butter, candor, command of language, command of words, communicativeness, conversableness, effective style, effusion, effusiveness, eloquence, eloquent tongue, expression,… …   Moby Thesaurus