spate 音标拼音: [sp'et]
n . 泛滥,洪水,大雨,大量,一阵
泛滥,洪水,大雨,大量,一阵
spate n 1 : (
often followed by `
of ')
a large number or amount or extent ; "
a batch of letters "; "
a deal of trouble "; "
a lot of money "; "
he made a mint on the stock market "; "
see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos "; "
it must have cost plenty "; "
a slew of journalists "; "
a wad of money " [
synonym : {
batch }, {
deal }, {
flock }, {
good deal }, {
great deal }, {
hatful }, {
heap }, {
lot }, {
mass }, {
mess }, {
mickle },
{
mint }, {
mountain }, {
muckle }, {
passel }, {
peck }, {
pile },
{
plenty }, {
pot }, {
quite a little }, {
raft }, {
sight }, {
slew },
{
spate }, {
stack }, {
tidy sum }, {
wad }]
2 :
a sudden forceful flow [
synonym : {
rush }, {
spate }, {
surge },
{
upsurge }]
3 :
the occurrence of a water flow resulting from sudden rain or melting snow [
synonym : {
freshet }, {
spate }]
Spate \
Spate \,
n . [
Of Celtic origin ;
cf .
Ir .
speid .]
A river flood ;
an overflow or inundation . --
Burns .
[
1913 Webster ]
Gareth in a showerful spring Stared at the spate . --
Tennyson .
[
1913 Webster ]
258 Moby Thesaurus words for "
spate ":
Niagara ,
abundance ,
acres ,
affluence ,
afflux ,
affluxion ,
ample sufficiency ,
ampleness ,
amplitude ,
army ,
asperse ,
avalanche ,
bags ,
barrels ,
batch ,
befoul ,
belch ,
bespatter ,
bespot ,
blacken ,
bonanza ,
bountifulness ,
bountiousness ,
brash ,
bumper crop ,
burst ,
burst of rain ,
bushel ,
cascade ,
cataclysm ,
cataract ,
cloudburst ,
cluster ,
cohue ,
concourse ,
confluence ,
conflux ,
considerable ,
copiousness ,
countlessness ,
course ,
crosscurrent ,
crowd ,
crush ,
current ,
deal ,
debouchment ,
defame ,
defluxion ,
deluge ,
denigrate ,
dissiliency ,
douse ,
downfall ,
downflow ,
downpour ,
drencher ,
drift ,
driftage ,
embarras de richesses ,
enough ,
eructation ,
eruption ,
extravagance ,
extravagancy ,
exuberance ,
fertility ,
flare -
up ,
flock ,
flood ,
flooding ,
flow ,
flowing ,
fluency ,
flux ,
foison ,
fresh ,
freshet ,
full measure ,
fullness ,
galaxy ,
generosity ,
generousness ,
gobs ,
good deal ,
great abundance ,
great deal ,
great plenty ,
gush ,
gushing rain ,
heap ,
heaps ,
heavy rain ,
horde ,
host ,
inflow ,
inundation ,
jam ,
jet ,
landslide ,
lashings ,
lavishness ,
legion ,
liberality ,
liberalness ,
load ,
loads ,
lot ,
lots ,
luxuriance ,
mass ,
maximum ,
mess ,
mill run ,
millrace ,
mint ,
mob ,
money to burn ,
more than enough ,
mountain ,
much ,
multitude ,
myriad ,
myriads ,
numerousness ,
ocean ,
oceans ,
onrush ,
onset ,
onward course ,
oodles ,
opulence ,
opulency ,
outbreak ,
outburst ,
outflow ,
outflowing ,
outpouring ,
overabundance ,
overaccumulation ,
overbounteousness ,
overcopiousness ,
overdose ,
overflow ,
overlavishness ,
overluxuriance ,
overmeasure ,
overmuchness ,
overnumerousness ,
overplentifulness ,
overplenty ,
overpopulation ,
overprofusion ,
oversufficiency ,
oversupply ,
pack ,
panoply ,
peck ,
pile ,
piles ,
plash ,
plenitude ,
plenteousness ,
plentifulness ,
plenty ,
plethora ,
pot ,
pour ,
press ,
prevalence ,
prodigality ,
productiveness ,
profuseness ,
profusion ,
progression ,
quantities ,
quantity ,
quite a little ,
rabble ,
race ,
raft ,
rafts ,
rain ,
rainburst ,
rainspout ,
rainstorm ,
rapids ,
redundancy ,
repleteness ,
repletion ,
rich harvest ,
rich vein ,
richness ,
riot ,
riotousness ,
river ,
rout ,
ruck ,
run ,
rush ,
scads ,
scud ,
sea ,
series ,
set ,
shower ,
sight ,
slew ,
slews ,
slop ,
slosh ,
slur ,
smear ,
soaker ,
soaking rain ,
sparge ,
spew ,
spit ,
splatter ,
splosh ,
splurge ,
splutter ,
spout ,
spurt ,
spurtle ,
stack ,
stacks ,
stream ,
substantiality ,
substantialness ,
succession ,
superabundance ,
superfluity ,
superflux ,
surge ,
swash ,
teemingness ,
throng ,
tide ,
tidy sum ,
tons ,
torrent ,
torrent of rain ,
traduce ,
trend ,
undercurrent ,
undertow ,
volcan ,
volume ,
wad ,
wads ,
water flow ,
waterflood ,
waterspout ,
wealth ,
whole slew ,
world ,
worlds
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