sky-flood

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sky-flood (plural sky-floods)

  1. (literary) A deluge of rain.
    • 1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 140:
      Behind them they could almost hear still the fierce sky-flood.