Spate
English Meaning
A river flood; an overflow or inundation.
- A sudden flood, rush, or outpouring: "It issues a spate of words from the loudspeakers and the politicians” ( Virginia Woolf).
- Chiefly British A flash flood.
- Chiefly British A freshet resulting from a downpour of rain or melting of snow.
- Chiefly British A sudden heavy fall of rain.