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le torrent

torrent, rushing stream, flood, rush

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noun · masculine Rare #49,167
torrent, rushing stream Usually a fast-flowing stream, often in the mountains.
FR: Le torrent traverse la vallée.
EN: The rushing stream runs through the valley.
torrent, flood, rush Used figuratively for a large, forceful flow of something.
FR: Un torrent de questions l’attendait.
EN: A flood of questions awaited him.

Ça doit être dangereux de nager dans ce rapide torrent.

It must be dangerous to swim in this fast-flowing torrent.

Un torrent d’idées menaçait de me noyer.

A torrent of ideas threatened to drown me.

C'est un torrent de chair vivante qu'aucune digue ne saurait contenir.

It’s a torrent of living flesh that no dam could hold back.

Ils se baignèrent dans le torrent.

They bathed in the torrent.

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tyran t i . ʁ ɑ̃