RAINING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does raining mean? 

• RAINING (adjective)
  The adjective RAINING has 1 sense:

1. falling in drops or as if falling like rain

  Familiarity information: RAINING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RAINING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Falling in drops or as if falling like rain

Context example:

watched the raining apple blossoms

Similar:

descending (coming down or downward)

 Context examples 

If it keeps raining, the streets will be very wet.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

The reason, he says, is that “it is raining iron on the night side of this extreme exoplanet.”

(ESO Telescope Observes Exoplanet Where It Rains Iron, ESO)

Had it been raining all evening?

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Everybody heard it and knew; and Cheese-Face knew, rushing like a tiger in the other's extremity and raining blow on blow.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The plumes are estimated to rise about 125 miles (200 kilometers) before, presumably, raining material back down onto Europa's surface.

(Possible Water Plumes on Jupiter's Moon Europa, NASA)

In the colder periods, nitrogen dominated the atmosphere, raining down and cycling through the icy crust to collect in pools just below the surface.

(New Models Suggest Titan Lakes Are Explosion Craters, NASA)

Blows were raining upon him from all sides.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

With each successive iteration, researchers think successor moons would have been five times smaller than the previous moon, with some debris raining down on the Martian surface.

(Mars May Have Had Rings, and May Once Again, VOA News)

It was dark and raining, and I saw more fog and mud in a minute than I had seen in a year.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

It had been raining all morning, I remember—a soft spring rain, which sent up a rich smell from the brown earth and pattered pleasantly upon the budding chestnuts behind our cottage.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)