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Definition of torrential in English: torrentialadjective təˈrɛnʃ(ə)ltəˈrɛn(t)ʃəl 1(of rain) falling rapidly and in copious quantities. （雨）倾泻而下的 倾盆大雨。 Example sentencesExamples - Somehow I just love those violent eruptions in the sky and the ensuing downpour of torrential rain.
- After two days of sunshine, torrential rain started falling in Australia too, washing out part of his holiday.
- Two schoolchildren are up for a bravery award after helping their grandmother when she fell in torrential rain.
- It flew through torrential rain and sleet and snow showers to arrive just before 8am.
- Shortly before the bout took place, torrential rain fell and the canvas was drenched.
- The threat of flooding in the district was fading today as torrential rain and heavy storms began to fade.
- An hour or two later torrential rain began to fall and the Show was washed out.
- On the paddy fields of the far east of Wales, with torrential rain falling throughout, there was very little rugby.
- A fast torrential rain began to fall, hard and thick making it impossible to see anything in front of the car.
- This was a result of a downpour of torrential rain which lasted approximately an hour and a half.
- Still torrential rain fell, leaves blew all around and I saw no other vehicle for my entire journey.
- On the day of the murder there was torrential downpour of rain on Norfolk Island.
- The floods followed torrential rain that has fallen since August, causing rivers to overflow and dams to collapse.
- Heavy storms and torrential rain continued on many days through to October, ending one of the worst droughts on record.
- But observers blamed the torrential rain that fell on the capital before and after the ceremony.
- The twister or funnel cloud was spotted at around 4pm yesterday as a torrential downpour rained on the town.
- Day and night the sky falls upon them and torrential rains dampen their dreams.
- The rest of the day torrential rain fell, the grass becoming a bog, the river turning to a lake.
- Ten days after this deluge, torrential rain fell in Tasmania, causing major flooding in the Derwent Valley.
- As torrential rain fell Malton still persevered with an adventurous and open game.
Synonyms copious, severe, heavy, rapid, relentless, violent soaking, teeming - 1.1 (of water) flowing rapidly and with force.
（水）奔流的，湍急的 they plunged into the torrential waters Example sentencesExamples - Ground-nesting birds are obviously vulnerable to May's torrential outbursts.
- Christina whipped her head around and the blue Swift fired a torrential jet of water at her.
- He muttered, looking insolently at the flooding shelter as the torrential waters rose.
- Mini-oases of peace occur in harbours, sheltered from the torrential force of spring snowmelt.
Derivativesadverb It's raining torrentially, and rivers flow down the cobbled streets. Example sentencesExamples - It is not characteristic of NAIT for the baby to bleed suddenly and torrentially?
- A prodigious waterfall comprised of magical water torrentially down poured upon Seres.
- The heaven's opened and it rained torrentially.
- Sadly I had neglected to properly shut the skylight, the gales had forced it wide open, and the torrential downpour had torrentially downpoured into my room for 4 hours.
- That night it rained torrentially, turning the ground to a mass of slick mud, and in the darkness I fell repeatedly.
- To use an an oft invoked comparison, at least I am not in a tree in Mozambique giving birth to a child as the swollen waters of the Limpopo River rage torrentially below.
- When thunderstorms aren't uprooting forests or rearranging acres of farmland, the South often suffers hailstorms, flashfloods and torrentially ghoulish winds during this season.
- This same semiliteracy flows torrentially, excrementally from American high schools, which teach journalism and television production while refusing to teach media criticism or McLuhan.
- Her skin pricked with excitement and anticipation, sweat trickled from her pores, and her blood rushed torrentially throughout her veins.
- Older and chubbier, which doesn't matter, he is a torrentially powerful, elemental actor, whose outbursts mesmerize, and whose very silences impress.
- He was consternated, as memories began to flow torrentially back into his mind.
- Outside the clouds had burst and it was raining torrentially, the Gulf Stream swept in over the Cliffs of Moher and tempestuously lashed down on all of Ireland who faced the desolate Atlantic alone.
- One book I read described it glittering in the sunshine, but to my disappointment it rained torrentially the next day.
- Ubiquitously he's lauded and torrentially conferred compliments befitting heads of state; his charity is a marvelous deed.
Rhymescadential, confidential, consequential, credential, deferential, differential, essential, evidential, existential, experiential, exponential, influential, intelligential, irreverential, jurisprudential, penitential, pestilential, potential, preferential, presidential, providential, prudential, quintessential, referential, residential, reverential, sapiential, sciential, sentential, sequential, tangential Definition of torrential in US English: torrentialadjectivetəˈren(t)SHəltəˈrɛn(t)ʃəl 1(of rain) falling rapidly and in copious quantities. （雨）倾泻而下的 倾盆大雨。 Example sentencesExamples - The floods followed torrential rain that has fallen since August, causing rivers to overflow and dams to collapse.
- The twister or funnel cloud was spotted at around 4pm yesterday as a torrential downpour rained on the town.
- Shortly before the bout took place, torrential rain fell and the canvas was drenched.
- Two schoolchildren are up for a bravery award after helping their grandmother when she fell in torrential rain.
- The threat of flooding in the district was fading today as torrential rain and heavy storms began to fade.
- On the paddy fields of the far east of Wales, with torrential rain falling throughout, there was very little rugby.
- Day and night the sky falls upon them and torrential rains dampen their dreams.
- This was a result of a downpour of torrential rain which lasted approximately an hour and a half.
- After two days of sunshine, torrential rain started falling in Australia too, washing out part of his holiday.
- On the day of the murder there was torrential downpour of rain on Norfolk Island.
- But observers blamed the torrential rain that fell on the capital before and after the ceremony.
- An hour or two later torrential rain began to fall and the Show was washed out.
- Still torrential rain fell, leaves blew all around and I saw no other vehicle for my entire journey.
- A fast torrential rain began to fall, hard and thick making it impossible to see anything in front of the car.
- It flew through torrential rain and sleet and snow showers to arrive just before 8am.
- As torrential rain fell Malton still persevered with an adventurous and open game.
- The rest of the day torrential rain fell, the grass becoming a bog, the river turning to a lake.
- Somehow I just love those violent eruptions in the sky and the ensuing downpour of torrential rain.
- Ten days after this deluge, torrential rain fell in Tasmania, causing major flooding in the Derwent Valley.
- Heavy storms and torrential rain continued on many days through to October, ending one of the worst droughts on record.
Synonyms copious, severe, heavy, rapid, relentless, violent - 1.1 (of water) flowing rapidly and with force.
（水）奔流的，湍急的 Example sentencesExamples - Mini-oases of peace occur in harbours, sheltered from the torrential force of spring snowmelt.
- Ground-nesting birds are obviously vulnerable to May's torrential outbursts.
- He muttered, looking insolently at the flooding shelter as the torrential waters rose.
- Christina whipped her head around and the blue Swift fired a torrential jet of water at her.
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