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rainnoun a steady falling of water from the sky in significant quantitythe rain continued for most of the day cloudburst, deluge, downfall, downpour, rainfall, rainstorm, storm, wet precipitation, showerthundershower, thunderstorm, weather drizzle, mist, mizzle, scud, spit, sprinkle a heavy fall of objectsthe Norman invaders fled when the castle's defenders threw a rain of stones down upon them hail, shower, storm barrage, bombardment, broadside, cannonade, fusillade, salvo, volleyflood, gush, rush, spate, torrenteruption, outbreak, outburst rainverbto fall as water in a continuous stream of drops from the cloudsit started raining early this morning and hasn't let up since pour, precipitate, storm showerspithail, squalldeluge, drown, engulf, flood, inundate, swamp rain cats and dogs drizzle, mist, mizzle, spit, sprinkle to give readily and in large quantitiesshe rained praise upon her graduating students the squadron rained bombs on the enemy's fortifications heap, lavish, pour, shower gush, streamflood, inundate, overflow, overwhelm, swampbombard, hail hold back, keep, reserve, retain, withhold before the 12th century |