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Spate   /speɪt/   Listen
Spate

noun
1.
(often followed by 'of') a large number or amount or extent.  Synonyms: 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, stack, tidy sum, wad.  "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"
2.
A sudden forceful flow.  Synonyms: rush, surge, upsurge.
3.
The occurrence of a water flow resulting from sudden rain or melting snow.  Synonym: freshet.






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"Spate" Quotes from Famous Books



... we reck of hours that rend While we two ride together? The heavens rent from end to end Would be but windy weather, The strong stars shaken down in spate Would be a shower of spring, And we should list the trump of fate And hear a ...
— Poems • G.K. Chesterton



Words linked to "Spate" :   deluge, great deal, torrent, debris surge, onrush, haymow, large indefinite amount, flow, large indefinite quantity, inundation, debris storm, flowing, flood



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