fusillade

a rapid or overwhelming outpouring of many things at once <responded calmly to the fusillade of criticism leveled at his design for the memorial> Synonyms blitz, blitzkrieg, bombardment, cannonade, drumbeat, drumfire, flurry, barrage, hail, salvo, shower, storm, volleyRelated Words broadside, earful; avalanche, burst, cataclysm, cataract, deluge, discharge, engulfment, flood, flood tide, flush, gush, inundation, outburst, outflow, outpouring, overflow, rash, spate, surge, torrent; current, river, stream, tide; excess, glut, overabundance, overage, overkill, overmuch, oversupply, superabundance, superfluity, surfeit, surplusNear Antonyms dribble, drip, trickle