All cataract synonyms
cat·a·ract
C c noun cataract
- flood — a great flowing or overflowing of water, especially over land not usually submerged.
- torrent — a stream of water flowing with great rapidity and violence.
- deluge — A deluge of things is a large number of them which arrive or happen at the same time.
- rapids — occurring within a short time; happening speedily: rapid growth.
- waterfall — a steep fall or flow of water in a watercourse from a height, as over a precipice; cascade.
- cascade — If you refer to a cascade of something, you mean that there is a large amount of it.
- falls — Albert Bacon, 1861–1944, U.S. politician: senator 1912–21; secretary of the Interior 1921–23; convicted in Teapot Dome scandal.
- chute — A chute is a steep, narrow slope down which people or things can slide.
- flume — a deep narrow defile containing a mountain stream or torrent.
verb cataract
- descend — If you descend or if you descend a staircase, you move downwards from a higher to a lower level.
- detrain — to leave or cause to leave a railway train, as passengers, etc
- prolapse — Pathology. a falling down of an organ or part, as the uterus, from its normal position.
- cave in — If something such as a roof or a ceiling caves in, it collapses inwards.
- deplane — to disembark from an aeroplane
- sheeting — Nautical. a rope or chain for extending the clews of a square sail along a yard. a rope for trimming a fore-and-aft sail. a rope or chain for extending the lee clew of a course.
- thronging — a multitude of people crowded or assembled together; crowd.
- pour — to send (a liquid, fluid, or anything in loose particles) flowing or falling, as from one container to another, or into, over, or on something: to pour a glass of milk; to pour water on a plant.
- slough off — the outer layer of the skin of a snake, which is cast off periodically.