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rain

noun

1 the rain had almost stopped:

rainfall, precipitation, raindrops, rainwater, wet weather;

the wet, a fall of rain;

sprinkle, drizzle, mizzle, Scotch mist, shower, rainstorm, cloudburst, torrent, downpour, deluge, squall, thunderstorm.

2 a rain of hot ash | a rain of blows:

shower, deluge, flood, torrent, spate, avalanche, outpouring, rush, flurry;

volley, storm, hail, barrage, broadside, salvo.

verb

1 it was raining heavily:

pour (down), pelt down, tip down, teem down, beat down, lash down, sheet down, come down, come down in torrents/sheets, rain cats and dogs;

fall, shower, drizzle, spit;

informal be chucking it down;

British, informal bucket down, come down in buckets/bucketloads, come down in stair rods, tipple down;

British, vulgar slang piss down.

2 bombs rained on the city's crowded streets:

fall, pour/rain down, drop, shower.

3 guerrillas rained mortar bombs on the capital:

shower, pour, drop;

bombard someone with, pepper someone with, pelt someone with.

word links	rain
pluvial, pluvious, hyetal relating to rain

rain Oxford Dictionary of English