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spate Noun 1. a large number of things happening within a period of time: a spate of bombings 2. a fast flow or outpouring: an incomprehensible spate of words 3. in spate Chiefly Brit (of a river) flooded [origin unknown]
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I managed to make out the road by means of occasional ruins of its villas and fences and lamps, and so presently I got out of this spate and made my way to the hill going up towards Roehampton and came out on Putney Common. She did not wish this spate of business and self-advertisement checked. In this steady rain the springs of the mountain were broken up; every glen gushed water like a cistern; every stream was in high spate, and had filled and overflowed its channel. |
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