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Downpour   /dˈaʊnpɔr/   Listen
Downpour

noun
1.
A heavy rain.  Synonyms: cloudburst, deluge, pelter, soaker, torrent, waterspout.






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"Downpour" Quotes from Famous Books



... nod and smile even after they had moved to the front window farthest from their three seniors and stood gazing out into the beautiful tempest. Both wind and downpour had somewhat slackened their fury. A bit nearer than before and more to starboard they could faintly make out the Antelope, so white that it seemed as if she had gone down and her ghost come up wrapped and ...
— Gideon's Band - A Tale of the Mississippi • George W. Cable

... a cloudburst—a downpour such as Hiram had seldom experienced before. Exhausted, he lay on the bank and let the pelting rain ...
— Hiram The Young Farmer • Burbank L. Todd

... gradually changed from unceasing downpour to squally outbursts, followed by banks of impenetrable fog that would shut down on us solidly for a few minutes, then vanish like the good intentions of yesterday; the wind switched a few points and settled to a steady gale which lashed the spent clouds ...
— Raw Gold - A Novel • Bertrand W. Sinclair

... Shortly afterwards, as we were observing the Lion shortening sail, the first of the rain descended between her and us like a lowered veil. For a time she remained mistily visible, dark and gaunt with her bared spars. The downpour redoubled; she disappeared; and our hearts were ...
— Romance • Joseph Conrad and F.M. Hueffer

... cloud-laden, and with a peculiar sensation of warmth. Thick mists hid the mountain tops, and filled up the valleys, and a few hours later the professor and his companions had to make a rush for the shelter of the great hall that was their prison, for a terrific downpour commenced, and for the next ...
— Yussuf the Guide - The Mountain Bandits; Strange Adventure in Asia Minor • George Manville Fenn


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