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Definition of Rain down
1. Verb. Precipitate as rain. "It was rain downing all day long "; "If it rains much more, we can expect some flooding"
Generic synonyms: Come Down, Fall, Precipitate
Specialized synonyms: Drizzle, Mizzle, Shower, Shower Down, Patter, Pitter-patter, Spatter, Spit, Sprinkle, Pelt, Pour, Rain Buckets, Rain Cats And Dogs, Stream
Derivative terms: Rain, Rain
Definition of Rain down
1. Verb. (intransitive) to fall from the sky, as rain ¹
2. Verb. (idiomatic intransitive) to appear inexplicably ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rain Down
Literary usage of Rain down
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. English Hymns: Their Authors and History by Samuel Willoughby Duffield (1886)
"Comforting his wife as best he could, the poor man exhorted her to trust God,
saying that God would even rain down bread for his own people. ..."
2. The Letters of Charles Dickens by Charles Dickens, Georgina Hogarth (1882)
"morning, in a heavy rain, down the lake. By-the-bye, the wife of one of his
cousins, born in France of German parents, living in the next house to ..."
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