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A (sudden) flood or inundation of water; specifically, a flood in or overflow of a river or other watercourse due to heavy rain or melting snow; flooding, inundation.
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(RQ:Gladstone Homer) His floods, however useful in time of war, would in time of peace do fearful damage. (..) He carried away, in sudden ''spates'', many of the horses that were pastured on his banks.
(quote-journal)|date=20 February 1886|volume=XII|page=97|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=SqJxkADxWzYC&pg=PA97|column=1|oclc=43545536|passage=It Halladale river receives the whole of its water-supply from a number of hill burns and several lochs of inconsiderable extent. it follows, therefore, that after rain the surplus water soon runs out, and the river soon dwindles down to an almost unfishable condition. (..) An ordinary spate will not suffice to keep the river in good order for more than a couple of days.
(RQ:Doyle Great Boer War)&93; had hoped to cross, the river was in spate, the British flag waved from a post upon the further side, and a strong force of expectant Guardsmen eagerly awaited him there.
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A sudden heavy downpour of rain.
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A sudden increase or rush of something; a flood, an outburst, an outpouring.
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(quote-journal), Chief Justice, (w) (delivering the court’s opinion)|mainauthor=Putzel Jr.|Henry Putzel, jr., reporter|title=Reynolds v. Sims|Reynolds, Judge, et al. ''v.'' Sims, et al.|journal=States Reports|United States Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court at October Term, 1963(nb...)|location=Washington, D.C.|publisher=States Government Publishing Office|United States Government Printing Office|date=15 June 1964|volume=377|section=section II|page=556|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/sim_united-states-supreme-court-cases-adjudged_1963_377/page/556/mode/1up|issn=0891-6845|oclc=859918189|passage=The spate of similar cases filed and decided by lower courts since our decision in Baker v. Carr|''Baker'' &91;''v. Carr''&93; amply shows that the problem of state legislative malapportionment is one that is perceived to exist in a large number of the States.
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(RQ:NYT) told millions of his radio listeners to set aside any suggestion that climate change was the culprit for the frightening spate of wildfires ravaging California and the Pacific Northwest.
To (suddenly) flood or inundate (a river or other watercourse) with water.
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(quote-journal)|date=20 February 1886|volume=XII|page=97|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=SqJxkADxWzYC&pg=PA97|column=1|oclc=43545536|passage=A few of the very best angling streams in the Highlands are almost perennial in their flow; the Halladale, on the contrary, is subject to spating.|footer=(small)
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(quote-book) for the (w) and (w)|year=1977|year_published=2011|volume=2 (Site Accounts)|page=202|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=q5XQQtDrmvgC&pg=PA202|column=1|isbn=978-0-521-21403-2|passage=(smallcaps) (..) This is a good example of a short, west-coast spating oligotrophic river. (..) The river is subject to a rise in water level of up to 1 m following heavy rain and the water is clear and fairly low in dissolved nutrients.|footer=(small)
(quote-book), IV, Part 1|(noitalic) and IV, Part 2|(noitalic), and V (play)|(noitalic)|location=Eastbourne, East Sussex|publisher=Sussex Academic Press|year=2023|section=book 4 (Reputation Redeemed! Henry V – Model Warrior King)|page=422|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=QP2gEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA422|isbn=978-1-78976-164-1|passage=He &91;(w)&93; therefore bids them 'Rush on his &91;V of England|Henry &91;V&93;'s&93; host' with the force of an Alpine river spated with snow melt.
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