English > rain down: 1 sense > verb 1, weather| Meaning | precipitate as rain. |
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| Pattern | It is ----ing; Something ----s something |
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| Model | It was rain downing all day long |
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| Synonym | rain |
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| Entailed by | storm | rain, hail, or snow hard and be very windy, often with thunder or lightning |
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| Narrower | drizzle, mizzle | rain lightly / lightly |
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| pour, pelt, stream, rain cats and dogs, rain buckets | rain heavily |
| shower, shower down | rain abundantly |
| sprinkle, spit, spatter, patter, pitter-patter | rain gently |
| Broader | precipitate, come down, fall | fall from clouds |
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| Spanish | llover, precipitar |
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| Catalan | ploure, pluja |
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