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