torrent English

Meaning torrent meaning

What does torrent mean?

torrent

— noun a violently fast stream of water (or other liquid) the houses were swept away in the torrent

— noun (= downpour) a heavy rain

— noun (= flood) an overwhelming number or amount a flood of requests a torrent of abuse

Synonyms torrent synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as torrent?

torrent English » English

stream

flood

deluge

downpour

spate

waterspout

shower

river

inundation

current

cloudburst

wave

violent stream

surge

soaker

rapids

pelter

overflow

onslaught

gush

flow

blizzard

avalanche

watercourse

violently rushing stream

tumbling

torrential

tidal wave

swift

shoal

shallows

rushing water

rush

rivulet

rill

rash

rainstorm

rain shower

profusion

outpouring

jet stream

jet flow

invasion

heavy shower

hail

ground swell

freshet

flood flow

flood current

falls

Topics torrent topics

What do people use torrent to talk about?

Universe, creation Water Bodies of water

River

• What words refer to a river when it has a lot of water?
  flood torrent flash flood freshet swell surge

Universe, creation Water Movement of water

Flow

• What words refer to water moving over a surface?
  flow run stream current rise fall flood overflow to wind meander erode split merge roil surge torrent trickle effluence spread permeate

States Quantity Plural

Many, much

• What words indicate that many things are happening?
  flood of wave of deluge of avalanche of stream torrent

Examples torrent examples

How do I use torrent in a sentence?

Movie subtitles

The torrent, swollen by the melting glacier, plunges into a tremendous abyss in which the spray rose up like the smoke from a burning house.

Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently, for in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.

The stream of flight became a torrent.

The pace never slackened through a torrent of rain and a long, black night.

And below, the waters of a torrent!

In living water, from a torrent. A torrent of sun.

But if you mouth it, as many of our players do, I had as lief the towncrier spoke my lines for in the very torrent, tempest, whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance.

We always meet at the Torrent city fair.

Now he has gone into the whole torrent of the years of the souls that pass and never stop.

My mind is a raging torrent flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives.

I became conscious that a steady torrent of obscenities. and swearing of all kinds was pouring out of me as I screamed.

It wanted the stream to be a river. the river a torrent. and this puddle to be the sea.

Did you know that Thomas Wolfe. would walk back and forth on this very bridge night after. And then finally, one night a torrent of words just gushed out of him. and he wrote, uh, Of Time and the River.

The river will become a torrent, a torrent that will engulf. the totalitarian tyranny which seeks to destroy the world.

My blood rages like a torrent. My heart beats like a drum.

It's a torrent! It's an avalanche!

For in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say whirlwind of your passion you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.

It drifts without effort one moment, then pounds down in a torrent the next.

Can you understand this torrent of words?

A torrent of celestial waves will inundate our abode.

Quit your deep dwellings, a torrent of celestial waves will inundate our abode.

A torrent of celestial waves will inundate. our abode.

This is a massive rushing torrent of fresh melt water tunneling straight down through the Greenland ice to the bedrock below.

Albertine and Jacques picked the legitimate fruit of that torrent of tears.

You know, I got another letter from this poor guy: a torrent of tears.

I crossed to the east and came here in order to see the torrent.

You went to the torrent and you're still bewitched.

In the torrent, he was playing by the water!

His soul went to look for water in the torrent and she wouldn't let to him drink!

Everyday the island seemed to me bigger and majestic because in this season the river-bend's grown up and water's torrent gave us an amazing show.

From the cave a torrent now wells up, as if it were his blood.

There remains the torrent, the rock, the horror.

It wanted the stream to be a river, the river a torrent. and this puddle to be the sea.

The few creatures that live in the torrent have to hang on for dear life.

But we must take care, lest borne away by a torrent of passion we make shipwreck of conscience.

News and current affairs

A new generation in France, born after the war, broke the public silence with a torrent of books and films on French collaboration in the Holocaust, as well as the collaborationist Vichy regime, sometimes in an almost inquisitorial spirit.

We should care about that scenario, because remaining on a path of rising global emissions is almost certain to cause havoc and suffering for billions of people as they are hit by a torrent of droughts, heat waves, hurricanes, and more.

A virtual torrent of near hysterical hearsay and trickledown stories about the disaster soon followed.

Merkel is not the first German politician to adopt a hardline stance on monetary policy and debt - nor is she the first to face a torrent of international criticism.

In Eastern Europe, with the withdrawal and eventual disappearance of the Soviet hegemon, the floodgates were opened, and a torrent of change washed over the region.