sky-flood

noun

A deluge of rain.

Meanings

nounsky-flood (plural sky-floods)

plural sky-floods

  1. literaryA deluge of rain.

    Behind them they could almost hear still the fierce sky-flood.

    1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 140
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