SHOWER DOWN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does shower down mean? 

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

1. rain abundantly

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SHOWER DOWN (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Rain abundantly

Classified under:

Verbs of raining, snowing, thawing, thundering

Synonyms:

shower; shower down

Context example:

Meteors showered down over half of Australia

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

rain; rain down (precipitate as rain)

Sentence frame:

It is ----ing

Sentence example:

It was shower downing all day long

 Context examples 

Heaven shower down blessings on you, and save me, that I may again and again testify my gratitude for all your love and kindness.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

They shower down arrows, darts and great stones.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The bag is opened, and several quarts of tin money shower down upon the stage till it is quite glorified with the glitter.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)