raining (verb)

  • 1Verb — This article is about the part of speech. For the physical activity program, see VERB (program). For English usage of verbs, see English verbs. Verbs redirects here. For the Christian gospel rapper, see Verbs (rapper). Examples I washed the car… …

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  • 2Defective verb — In linguistics, a defective verb is a verb which is missing e.g. a past tense, or cannot be used in some other way that normal verbs come. Formally, it is a verb with an incomplete conjugation. Defective verbs cannot be conjugated in certain… …

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  • 3English modal verb — English grammar series English grammar Contraction Disputes in English grammar English compound English honorifics English personal pronouns English plural English relative clauses English verbs English irregular verbs English moda …

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  • 4Ilokano verb — Although other word classes in Ilokano are not as morphologically diverse in forms, verbs are about as morphologically complex as the classic Indo European languages of Latin, Ancient Greek or Sanskrit.Ilokano verbs inflect for the completion of… …

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  • 5happen — verb 1) remember what happened last time he was here Syn: occur, take place, come about; ensue, result, transpire, materialize, arise, crop up, come up, present itself, supervene; informal go down; formal eventuate; literary come to pass, betide… …

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  • 6preclude — verb /pɹɛˈkluːd/ Remove the possibility of; ; prevent or exclude; to make . It has been raining for days, but that doesn’t preclude the possibility that the skies will clear by this afternoon! …

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  • 7going to — verb a) Will. Forms the future tense. I’m going to throw out the milk if nobody’s going to drink it. b) Forms the past progressive (imperfect) to indicate definite non completion. I was going to cut the grass, but it started raining …

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  • 8tipping it down — verb Raining heavily. Its tipping it down out there, so if you must go out, take your umbrella and please drive carefully …

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  • 9rain buckets — verb To rain heavily After lunching, Caesar went out to post some cards, and as it was raining buckets, he took refuge in the arcades of the mdash; by Syn: rain cats and dogs …

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  • 10beat down phrasal — verb 1 (I) if the sun beats down, it shines very brightly and the weather is hot 2 (I) if the rain beats down, it is raining very hard 3 (transitive beat someone down) to persuade someone to reduce a price: beat sb down to sth: He wanted $4500… …

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