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spatesnounpl. of spate a great flow of water or of something that overwhelmsa spate of words has been published on this controversial topic alluvions, baths, cataclysms, cataracts, deluges, floods, flood tides, inundations, Niagaras, overflows, torrents currents, rivers, streams, tidescloudbursts, discharges, flushes, gushes, outflows, outpouringsfluxes, inflows, influxesengulfments, washoutsavalanches, blizzardscascades, waterfallsexcesses, gluts, overabundances, overages, overkills, overmuch, oversupplies, superabundances, superfluities, surfeits, surpluses droughts(also drouths) dribbles, drips, trickles a considerable amountan off-color remark that drew a spate of complaints from TV viewers abundances, barrels, basketfuls(also basketsful), boatloads, buckets, bunches, bundles, bushels, carloads, chunks, deals, dozens(or dozen), fistfuls, gobs, good deals, heaps, hundreds(or hundred), lashings(also lashins, chiefly British), loads, lots, masses, messes, mountains, much, multiplicities, myriads, oodles, packs, passels, pecks, piles, platefuls, plenitudes, plenties, plentitudes, potfuls, pots, profusions, quantities, rafts, reams, scads, sheaves, shiploads, sights, slews, stacks, stores, tons, truckloads, volumes, wads, wealths, yards epidemics, plagues, rashesbonanzas, embarrassments, excesses, overabundances, overages, overkills, overmuch, oversupplies, plethoras, redundancies, superabundances, superfluities, surfeits, surplusesdeluges, floods, overflowsarmies, bevies, crams, crowds, crushes, droves, flocks, herds, hordes, hosts, legions, mobs, multitudes, presses, scores, seas, swarms, throngsgazillions, jillions, kazillions, millions(or million), thousands, trillions, zillions all kinds (of), quite a bit aces, bits, dabs, drams, driblets, glimmers, handfuls(also handsful), hints, licks, little, mites, mouthfuls, nips, ounces, peanuts, pinches, pittances, scruples, shades, shadows, smidgens(also smidgeons or smidgins or smidges), specks, spots, sprinkles, sprinklings, strains, streaks, suspicions, tastes, touches, traces atoms, crumbs, dots, flecks, flyspecks, fragments, grains, granules, iotas, jots, modicums, molecules, motes, nubbins, particles, rays, scintillas, scraps, shreds, tittles, whitssmatterings, smattersdashes, drops, morsels, shotspieces, portions, sectionsabsences, dearths, famines, lacks, paucities, poverties, scarcities, shortages, undersupplies, wantsdeficiencies, deficits, inadequacies, insufficiencies |