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torrent

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
torrent/ˈtɒrənt/

▶noun

1 a strong and fast-moving stream of water or other liquid.

2 an overwhelming outpouring: a torrent of abuse.

– derivatives
torrential adjective,
torrentially adverb.

– origin C16: from Fr., from Ital. torrente, from L. torrent- ‘boiling, roaring’, from torrere ‘scorch’.

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