cataracting

Verb

cataract (third-person singular simple present cataracts, present participle cataracting, simple past and past participle cataracted)

1. (intransitive) Of a river, etc.: to fall in the form of a waterfall.
   • [N]o river should cataract larger than the Clyde.1832 July, [John Wilson], “Christopher [North] at the Lakes. Flight Second.”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume XXXII, number CXCVI, Edinburgh: William Blackwood; London: T[homas] Cadell...
2. (figuratively, rare, transitive) To cause (something) to pour or rush like a waterfall.
   • My Poems have been reviewed. The Monthly has cataracted panegyric on me; the Critical cascaded it, and the Analytical dribbled it with civility.1796 July 4 (date written), Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Biographical Supplement to the Biographia Literaria. Chapter III. [1795 to 1796].”, in Biographia Literaria; or Biographical Sketches of My...

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