spate
noun
[ speɪt ]
• a large number of similar things coming in quick succession.
• "a spate of attacks on holidaymakers"
Similar:
series,
succession,
run,
cluster,
string,
outbreak,
rash,
epidemic,
explosion,
plague,
wave,
flurry,
rush,
flood,
deluge,
torrent,
outpouring,
• a sudden flood in a river.
Origin:
late Middle English (originally Scots and northern English in the sense ‘flood, inundation’): of unknown origin.
in spate
• (of a river) overflowing due to a sudden flood.
