Cataract

Noun

 * 1)  A disease of the eye causing its opacity and, unless treated, leading to blindness.
 * 2) A large waterfall; steep rapids in a river.
 * 3) A downpour, flood of water
 * 4)  A waterspout

Adjectives for Cataract

 * (waterfall) shining; superb; sounding; roaring; earth-quaking; fiery; remorseless; smoky; pouring; opaque; tireless; foaming.

Verbs for Cataract

 * (waterfall) lose in—; spout —s; stem—; view—; — churns; —crashes; —dashes down; —descends; —falls; —flashes; —foams; —leaps; —pours over; —precipitates; —roars; — rumbles; —rushes over; —surges; —sweeps down; —wears away.

Derived terms
cataractal

Thesaurus
drop off, drop serene, dropping, economic blindness, engulf, esotropia, ever-during dark, excecation, eye defect, eyelessness, fall, fall down, fall off, falling, falls, flood, flooding, force, fresh, freshet, glaucoma, go down, go downhill, gravitate, gravitation, gutta serena, hoodwinking, inclination, inundate, inundation, iritis, keratitis, lack of vision, linn, lose altitude, making blind, nappe, niphablepsia, optic neuritis, overbrim, overflow, overrun, overwhelm, parachute, partial blindness, pink eye, pitch, plummet, plummeting, plunge, pounce, pour, pour down, pour out, pour over, precipitate, psychic blindness, rain, rapids, reduced sight, retinoblastoma, river, run over, sault, sightless eyes, sightlessness, slop, slosh, snow blindness, soul-blindness, spate, spill, spill out, spill over, spiritual blindness, spout, stone-blindness, stoop, sty, submerge, swamp, sweep, swoop, torrent, total blindness, trachoma, trend downward, unenlightenment, unseeingness, uveitis, walleye, waterfall, waterflood, watershoot, whelm, ablepsia, amaurosis, benightedness, blepharitis, blind side, blind spot, blindfolding, blinding, blindness, blurring the eyes, cascade, cataclysm, cecity, choroiditis, chute, collapse, come down, comedown, conjunctivitis, crash, cross-eye, darkness, debacle, declension, declination, defective vision, defluxion, deluge, depriving of sight, descend, descending, descension, descent, detached retina, dim-sightedness, dip down, down, downbend, downcome, downcurve, downfall, downflow, downgrade, downpour, downrush, downtrend, downturn, downward trend, drop, drop down,

Etymology
From cataracta 'waterfall, portcullis', from  καταράκτης:, from καταράσσω:.

Noun

 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 大瀑布 (dàpùbù)
 * Czech:, stupňovaný vodopád
 * Dutch: cataract
 * Finnish:


 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: (katarráktis)
 * Italian:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:


 * Bulgarian: проливен дъжд,


 * Dutch: stortvloed


 * Bulgarian: перде
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 白内障 (báinèizhàng)
 * Czech: ,
 * Dutch: cataract, grijze staar
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: (katarráktis)
 * Hungarian:


 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 白内障 (はくないしょう, hakunaishō)
 * Navajo:
 * Portuguese: catarata
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbian:
 * Spanish:
 * Turkish:

Alternative forms

 * katarakt

Noun

 * 1) A cataract, waterfall, river rapids
 * 2) Cataract, a grave, gradual eye lens disease