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View synonyms for cloudburst
cloudburst
[ kloud-burst ]
noun
- a sudden and very heavy rainfall.
cloudburst
/ ˈklaʊdˌbɜːst /
noun
- a heavy downpour
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Origin of cloudburst1
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Example Sentences
When an Amazon facility lost power in a storm this week, it caused a major cloudburst of its own.
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Once black clouds gathered in the distance, to pour out a cloudburst.
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A deep sheet of water swept down from the prairie beyond the town limits to the west, where the rainfall was a cloudburst.
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Before it lay a long descent, a cloudburst, the sunset of a civilization, another night.
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Just a yielding here, a parting there, until the cloudburst precipitated the disaster.
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The first awful effects of the cloudburst were passing, and the water was going down slowly but surely.
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