to rain very heavily

  • 1rain cats and dogs — verb rain heavily Put on your rain coat it s pouring outside! • Syn: ↑pour, ↑pelt, ↑stream, ↑rain buckets • Derivationally related forms: ↑pelter (for: ↑ …

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  • 2rain — rainless, adj. rainlessness, n. /rayn/, n. 1. water that is condensed from the aqueous vapor in the atmosphere and falls to earth in drops more than 1/50 in. (0.5 mm) in diameter. Cf. drizzle (def. 6). 2. a rainfall, rainstorm, or shower: We had… …

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  • 3rain cats and dogs — verb To rain very heavily. Syn: bucket, bucket down, chuck it down, rain buckets, rain pitchforks, pelt, piss down, pour …

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  • 4rain dogs and cats — verb To rain very heavily. The Pedlars of our age have business yet …

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  • 5rain stair rods — Vrb phrs. To rain very heavily …

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  • 6rain cats and dogs — idi to rain very heavily or steadily …

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  • 7Rain — is liquid precipitation. On Earth, it is the condensation of atmospheric water vapor into drops heavy enough to fall, often making it to the surface. Rain is the primary source of fresh water for most areas of the world, providing suitable… …

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  • 8rain — rain1 W2S2 [reın] n [: Old English; Origin: regn] 1.) [U] water that falls in small drops from clouds in the sky ▪ a night of wind and rain in the rain ▪ I left my bicycle out in the rain. heavy/torrential/pouring rain (=a lot of rain) ▪ There… …

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  • 9Latter Rain Movement — The Latter Rain was a post World War II movement within Pentecostal Christianity which remains controversial to this day. For clarification in discussion of the Latter Rain a distinction should be made between: *The Latter Rain Revival (1948… …

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  • 10Heavy Rain — This article is about the video game. For classifications of the quantity of rain, see rain. Heavy Rain European box art Developer(s) Quantic Dream …

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