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spate
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noun
(often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
"a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos"; "it must have cost plenty"; "a slew of journalists"; "a wad of money"
batch
deal
flock
good deal
great deal
hatful
heap
lot
mass
mess
mickle
mint
mountain
muckle
passel
peck
pile
plenty
pot
quite a little
raft
sight
slew
spate
stack
tidy sum
wad
the occurrence of a water flow resulting from sudden rain or melting snow
freshet
spate
a sudden forceful flow
rush
spate
surge
upsurge
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