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noun

Torrent n.

A violent stream, as of water, lava, or the like; a stream suddenly raised and running rapidly, as down a precipice. "The roaring torrent is deep and wide."

Fig.: A violent or rapid flow; a strong current; a flood; as, a torrent of vices; a torrent of eloquence. "At length, Erasmus, that great injured name,... Stemmed the wild torrent of a barbarous age."

adjective

Torrent adj. Rolling or rushing in a rapid stream. "Waves of torrent fire."

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Etymology of 'Torrent'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Torrent" Quotes from Famous Books

... became more powerful, and the weather was not so severe. It was not till the middle of April that the lake was clear of ice and the thaw commenced, and then it was so rapid, that the little stream became quite an impetuous torrent, and a large portion of the prairie land ...

— The Settlers in Canada • Frederick Marryat

... down the sides of the Pit, and the ascent of the Sacred Mountain, show one familiar with such scenes—one who had climbed painfully in perilous passes, and grown dizzy on the brink of narrow ledges over sea or torrent. It is scenery from the gorges of the Alps and Apennines, or the terraces and precipices of the Riviera. Local reminiscences abound. The severed rocks of the Adige Valley—the waterfall of St. Benedetto; ...

— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 • Various

... valley of the Lima, and then it was that I seemed fairly to remount the stream of time; figuring to myself wistfully, at the small scattered centres of entertainment— modest inns, pensions and other places of convenience clustered where the friendly torrent is bridged or the forested slopes adjust themselves—what the summer days and the summer rambles and the summer dreams must have been, in the blest place, when "people" (by which I mean the contingent of beguiled barbarians) didn't know better, as we say, than ...

— Italian Hours • Henry James

... more angry with him for his selfishness and want of consideration, for Ellen, in her torrent of grief, had even disclosed that he had said she did not care for him—no one really in love ever scrupled about a ...

— Chantry House • Charlotte M. Yonge

... encroachments of both ... if they were confounded with the mass of the people, and like them had only a vote in electing representatives, their privileges would soon be borne down and overwhelmed by the popular torrent, which would effectually level all distinctions." "The Commons," he says further, "consist of all such men of property in the kingdom as have not seats in the House of Lords." The legal irresponsibility ...

— Political Thought in England from Locke to Bentham • Harold J. Laski

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