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/tɔrˈɛntʃəl/ /tɔrˈɛnʃəl/ Listen

Torrential

adjective

Relating to or resulting from the action of a torrent. "Torrential adaptations seen in some aquatic forms"

Resembling a torrent in force and abundance. "Torrential abuse" , "The torrential facility and fecundity characteristic of his style"

Pouring in abundance.

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"Torrential" Quotes from Famous Books

... accomplished after years of heroic effort and an enormous expenditure of money, leaving the harbor only the slender, tortuous entrance of Boca Chica—"little mouth"—dangerous to incoming vessels because of the almost torrential flow of the tide through it, but much more readily defended. The two castles of San Fernando and San Jose, frowning structures of stone dominating this entrance, have long since fallen into disuse, but ...

— Carmen Ariza • Charles Francis Stocking

... enriched from year to year. It was the axes of their fathers that felled the trees, to sell for fuel, and the billhooks of their mothers that hacked away the bushes and grubbed up their very roots to burn on the household cooking hole. Then the torrential rains of the south-west monsoon came down on the naked, defenceless, parched and cracked soil and swept it in muddy cascades down to the sea, leaving flats of bare rock, strewn thick with round stones, sore to the best-shod foot of man and ...

— Concerning Animals and Other Matters • E.H. Aitken, (AKA Edward Hamilton)

... of torrential rain, when she was a girl living in her father's house in Cheshire, she and her sister saw a carriage and pair coming through the park towards the house. The coachman and footman on the box were soaking wet, and kept their heads down to avoid the sting of the rain in their ...

— Painted Windows - Studies in Religious Personality • Harold Begbie

... exceedingly small stream, which now carries off all the surface drainage and must therefore be only remotely related to its great precursor that carved this enormous trench out of the limestone tableland. Compared to the torrential rushes of water carrying along huge quantities of gravel and boulders that must have flowed from the lake at the upper end, Newton Dale can almost be considered ...

— The Evolution Of An English Town • Gordon Home

... water except as a medium for quenching his thirst. He hated it because he connected it with the chill and discomfort of the torrential rains, and he feared it for the thunder and lightning and ...

— Tarzan of the Apes • Edgar Rice Burroughs

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