cloudburst

3 definitions found

cloudburst - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Cloud-burst \Cloud"-burst`\, n.
     A sudden copious rainfall, as if the whole cloud had been
     precipitated at once.
     [1913 Webster]

cloudburst - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  cloudburst
      n 1: a heavy rain [syn: downpour, cloudburst, deluge,
           waterspout, torrent, pelter, soaker]

cloudburst - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  22 Moby Thesaurus words for "cloudburst":
     brash, burst of rain, deluge, downfall, downflow, downpour,
     drencher, flood, gushing rain, heavy rain, plash, pour, rainburst,
     rainspout, rainstorm, scud, soaker, soaking rain, spate, spout,
     torrent of rain, waterspout