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rainsnounpl. of rain a steady falling of water from the sky in significant quantitythe rain continued for most of the day cloudbursts, deluges, downfalls, downpours, rainfalls, rainstorms, storms, wets precipitations, showersthundershowers, thunderstorms, weathers drizzles, mists, mizzles, scuds, spits, sprinkles a heavy fall of objectsthe Norman invaders fled when the castle's defenders threw a rain of stones down upon them hails, showers, storms barrages, bombardments, broadsides, cannonades, fusillades, salvos(or salvoes), volleysfloods, gushes, rushes, spates, torrentseruptions, outbreaks, outbursts rainsverbpresent tense third-person singular of rainto fall as water in a continuous stream of drops from the cloudsit started raining early this morning and hasn't let up since pours, precipitates, storms showersspitshails, squallsdeluges, drowns, engulfs, floods, inundates, swamps rains cats and dogs drizzles, mists, mizzles, spits, sprinkles to give readily and in large quantitiesshe rained praise upon her graduating students the squadron rained bombs on the enemy's fortifications heaps, lavishes, pours, showers gushes, streamsfloods, inundates, overflows, overwhelms, swampsbombards, hails holds back, keeps, reserves, retains, withholds |