Definitions for cataracts

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cataracts cat·a·ract

Spelling: [kat-uh-rakt]

IPA: /ˈkæt əˌrækt/

Cataracts is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 150 anagrams from letters in cataracts (aaaccrstt).

Definitions for cataracts

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 cataracts

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 cataracts

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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