1 a large amount of water moving very quickly:
After the winter rains, the stream becomes a raging torrent. * The rain was coming down in torrents.
2 a large amount of sth that comes suddenly and violently:
a torrent of abuse / criticism / words
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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This entry for torrent is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is torrent a noun, verb, or something else?
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