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Flood gate

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a gate for shutting out, admitting, or releasing, a body of water; a tide gate.

See also: Flood



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Now that the other had gone and he was alone contemplation of the hideous wrong that had been done loosed again the flood gates of his pent rage.
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Finally it came, poured from the flood gates of a sorrowing heart; that wave of bitter misery and hopelessness which not even a mother's love could check.
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