RAIN DOWN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rain down mean? 

• RAIN DOWN (verb)
  The verb RAIN DOWN has 1 sense:

1. precipitate as rain

  Familiarity information: RAIN DOWN used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RAIN DOWN (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Precipitate as rain

Classified under:

Verbs of raining, snowing, thawing, thundering

Synonyms:

rain; rain down

Context example:

If it rains much more, we can expect some flooding

Hypernyms (to "rain down" is one way to...):

come down; fall; precipitate (fall from clouds)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "rain down"):

drizzle; mizzle (rain lightly)

shower; shower down (rain abundantly)

patter; pitter-patter; spatter; spit; sprinkle (rain gently)

pelt; pour; rain buckets; rain cats and dogs; stream (rain heavily)

Sentence frames:

It is ----ing
Something ----s something

Sentence example:

It was rain downing all day long

 Context examples 

There are so many happy surprises that are about to rain down on you this month!

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

These materials might even form clouds and rain down as liquid metals and fluidic rubies.

(Water Is Destroyed, Then Reborn in Ultrahot Jupiters, NASA/JPL)

The fury of blows continued to rain down.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Convection moves around the clouds of silicate and iron particles, which disaggregate and rain down into the interior.

(GRAVITY instrument breaks new ground in exoplanet imaging, ESO)

"These hydrocarbons rain down on the surface, flow in streams and rivers, accumulate in lakes and seas, and evaporate into the atmosphere. It's quite an astounding world!"

(The First Global Geologic Map of Titan Completed, NASA)

While on Earth the most intense auroras are caused by solar storms — when charged particles rain down on the upper atmosphere, excite gases and cause them to glow red, green and purple — Jupiter has an additional source for its auroras.

(Hubble Captures Vivid Auroras in Jupiter’s Atmosphere, NASA)