"sky-flood" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: sky-floods [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} sky-flood (plural sky-floods)
  1. (literary) A deluge of rain. Tags: literary Categories (topical): Rain
    Sense id: en-sky-flood-en-noun-HU1qbWy8 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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            "Water",
            "Weather",
            "Liquids",
            "Atmosphere",
            "Matter",
            "Nature",
            "Chemistry",
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            "Sciences",
            "Fundamental"
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          "ref": "1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 140:",
          "text": "Behind them they could almost hear still the fierce sky-flood.",
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