单词 | cloudburst |
释义 | cloudburst (once / 30463 pages) n WORD FAMILY cloudburst: cloudbursts USAGE EXAMPLESOn this date in 1905, a cloudburst caused floods which swept away cattle, sheep and chickens in Williamson and Skull Valley. Washington Times(Aug 31, 2016) Interplay’s original Fallout arrived like a cloudburst after a PC roleplaying drought in the mid-1990s. Time(Aug 23, 2016) Borne on the wind, the cloudburst drummed hollowly on the fat wet hills across the valley and moved out over the flat lands. John Steinbeck, East of Eden(1952) n a heavy rain Syn|Hyper deluge, downpour, pelter, soaker, torrent, waterspout rain, rainfall water falling in drops from vapor condensed in the atmosphere |
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