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Raining

/ˈɹeɪnɪŋ/

To have rain fall from the sky.

📖 Definitions of "Raining"

verb

1
To have rain fall from the sky.
"It will rain today."
2
To fall as or like rain.
"Bombs rained from the sky."
3
To issue (something) in large quantities.
"The boxer rained punches on his opponent's head."
4
To reign.

noun

Found via reverse dictionary — words that share a conceptual meaning.

Word	Definition
descendingnoun	Moving or sloping downwards.
rainwaternoun	Water (for a house, etc.) sourced from rain which has not joined a spring, stream or river, pond, lake or sea.
rainy	Pouring with rain; wet; showery
rainfallnoun	The occurrence of liquid precipitation, the fall of rain.
scatteringnoun	A small quantity of something being dispersed (at random points).
drizzlingnoun	An amount of liquid that is drizzled.
pouringnoun	Flowing or falling intensely.
showeringnoun	Something that falls in a shower.
sprinklingnoun	A small thinly distributed amount, e.g. of some liquid, powder or other fine substance that is sprinkled on to something.
spittingnoun	(chiefly archaic, medicine) expectoration
sleetingverb	(impersonal, of the weather) To be in a state in which sleet is falling.
stormingnoun	The act of one who storms or rages.
peltingnoun	The act by which somebody or something is pelted.
teeming	Abundantly filled with especially living things.
precipitatingverb	(transitive) To make something happen suddenly and quickly.
bucketingnoun	Synonym of binning (“data pre-processing technique”).
delugingverb	(transitive) To overwhelm.
mizzlingnoun	Of rain: falling very finely; drizzling.
patteringnoun	Groupings of frequent irregularly repeated sounds of moderate magnitude and lower-than-average pitch.
cascadingnoun	The action or motion of something that cascades.