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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A violent downpour of rain in large quantity and over a very limited area.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A sudden copious rainfall, as if the whole cloud had been precipitated at once.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Alternative spelling of cloudburst.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a heavy rain

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