VIOLENT STREAM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does violent stream mean? 

• VIOLENT STREAM (noun)
  The noun VIOLENT STREAM has 1 sense:

1. a violently fast stream of water (or other liquid)

  Familiarity information: VIOLENT STREAM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VIOLENT STREAM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A violently fast stream of water (or other liquid)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

torrent; violent stream

Context example:

the houses were swept away in the torrent

Hypernyms ("violent stream" is a kind of...):

current; stream (a steady flow of a fluid (usually from natural causes))

 Context examples 

In late December 2014, a submarine volcano in the South Pacific Kingdom of Tonga erupted, sending a violent stream of steam, ash and rock into the air.

(NASA Shows New Tongan Island Made of Tuff Stuff, Likely to Persist Years, NASA)