spate

spate
Synonyms and related words:
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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  • spate — SPÁTE, spate, s.n. 1. Partea posterioară a corpului omenesc, de la umeri până la şale; partea superioară a corpului animalelor, cuprinzând regiunea coloanei vertebrale dintre articulaţiile membrelor; spinare. ♢ loc. adv. În (sau pe) spate = pe… …   Dicționar Român

  • spate — [speıt] n [Date: 1400 1500; Origin: Perhaps from Old French espoit, from Dutch spuiten to flow out strongly ] 1.) spate of sth a large number of similar things that happen in a short period of time, especially bad things ▪ a spate of burglaries 2 …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • Spate — is a surname, and may refer to:* Clive Spate (born 1952), British game show contestant * Mario Spate (21st century), Australian singer * Oskar Spate (1911 2000), geographeree also* Pate * Spade (disambiguation) * Spat …   Wikipedia

  • Späte — ist der Nachname folgender Personen: Bernd Späte, deutscher Sachbuchautor Margarete Späte (* 1958), deutsche Politikerin und Bildhauerin Otto Späte, deutscher Bildhauer Diese Seite ist eine Begriffsklärung zur Unters …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • 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] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • spate — [ speıt ] noun count usually singular spate of a large and sudden increase in something, usually something bad: a spate of bombings/thefts/violence …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • spate — I noun abundance, cataract, deluge, flood, outburst, profusion, rush, torrent II index plethora Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • spate — (n.) early 15c., originally Scottish and northern English, a sudden flood, especially one caused by heavy rains or a snowmelt, of unknown origin. Perhaps from O.Fr. espoit flood, from Du. spuiten to flow, spout; related to SPOUT (Cf. spout).… …   Etymology dictionary

  • spate — n *flood, deluge, inundation, torrent, cataract Analogous words: *flow, stream, current, tide: *succession, progression, series …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • spate — [n] series deluge, flood, flurry, outpouring, run, rush, string, succession, torrent, wave; concept 6 …   New thesaurus

  • spate — ► NOUN 1) a large number of similar things or events coming in quick succession. 2) chiefly Brit. a sudden flood in a river. ORIGIN of unknown origin …   English terms dictionary

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