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RAIN DOWN
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Precipitate as rain
Example:
If it rains much more, we can expect some flooding
Synonyms:
rain; rain down
Classified under:
Verbs of raining, snowing, thawing, thundering
Hypernyms (to "rain down" is one way to...):
come down; fall; precipitate (fall from clouds)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "rain down"):
drizzle; mizzle (rain lightly)
shower; shower down (rain abundantly)
patter; pitter-patter; spatter; spit; sprinkle (rain gently)
pelt; pour; rain buckets; rain cats and dogs; stream (rain heavily)
Sentence frames:
It is ----ing
Something ----s something
Sentence example:
It was rain downing all day long
