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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

... to oppose himself to the torrent of openly expressed opinion, the mortified youth withdrew to a distance, and, hastening among the rude tumuli we have described, as being scattered about the edge of the bank, stood watching, with folded arms and heaving chest, the gradually receding ...

— The Canadian Brothers - or The Prophecy Fulfilled • John Richardson

... cedars is on their summit; and many of that beautiful species of white cedar which droops its branches like the weeping-willow grow in the clefts of the rock, and in some places almost dip their dark foliage in the torrent. The rock is of a dark grey limestone, and often presents a wall of unbroken surface. Near the hotel a flight of very alarming steps leads down to the bed of the stream, and on reaching it you find yourself enclosed in ...

— Domestic Manners of the Americans • Fanny Trollope

... Asia Minor, now dwindled under Turkish misrule into a wretched village. He was heir to great estates; the glens and forests round him were his own: and that was the use which he made of them. On the other side of the torrent, his mother and his sister, a maiden of wonderful beauty, lived the hermit life, on a footing of perfect equality with their female slaves, and the pious women who ...

— The Hermits • Charles Kingsley

... as death; the sweat ran in streams down upon his naked breast; his words came like a torrent when he tried to ...

— The House Under the Sea - A Romance • Sir Max Pemberton

... eleven o'clock at night. Finding himself, at nine o'clock, the senior officer in the field, he, in that capacity, withdrew the troops from their advanced position, and concentrated them at the point where they were to pass the night. At eleven, beneath a torrent of rain, destitute of a tent or other protection, and without food or refreshment, he lay down on an ammunition wagon, but was prevented by the pain of his injuries, especially that of his wounded knee, from finding any ...

— Sketches and Studies • Nathaniel Hawthorne

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