Definitions for cataract

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cataract cat·a·ract

Spelling: [kat-uh-rakt]

IPA: /ˈkæt əˌrækt/

Cataract is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 74 anagrams from letters in cataract (aaaccrtt).

Definitions for cataract

noun

1. a descent of water over a steep surface; a waterfall, especially one of considerable size.
2. any furious rush or downpour of water; deluge.
3. Ophthalmology. an abnormality of the eye, characterized by opacity of the lens. the opaque area.

Origin of cataract

1350-1400; Middle English cataracte Latin catar(r)acta Greek katarráktēs waterfall, floodgate, portcullis (noun), downrushing (adj.), akin to katarássein to dash down, equivalent to kat-

Examples for cataract

I crossed it dry-shod at day-break, and now, it is a cataract.

Lady O'Moy was in an emotional maelstrom that swept her towards a cataract.

We had noticed this also in Lodore, but in cataract it was more common.

He heard it over the noise of the waters he had been swept away from the cataract.

You must be in a hurry to do it, too, coming downstairs like a cataract.

There was only one thing to be done—he must ride the cataract.

I paused involuntarily a hundred paces from the brink of the cataract.

That river has a cataract or fall, at about an hundred and fifty leagues from its confluence.

But this cataract of dried leaves, too, is a study in the rhythms of the dead.

A lake had burst on its summit, and the cataract became a falling Ocean.