Word.ws English Dictionary

persisting it down

persisting it down is the present participle and gerund of persist it down.

Meaning of persist it down

Verb

persist it down (third-person singular simple present persists it down, present participle persisting it down, simple past and past participle persisted it down)

  1. (rare) Humorous euphemism for piss it down (rain heavily).
    • We got home just in time to watch the clouds start to persist it down.

Questions about persisting it down

What is persisting it down the present participle and gerund of?
Persisting it down is the present participle and gerund of persist it down.

Words near persisting it down in the dictionary

  1. persistently
  2. persister
  3. persisters
  4. persisting
  5. persisting down
  6. persisting it down
  7. persistingly
  8. persistings
  9. persistive
  10. persistive vegetative state
  11. persistive vegetative states

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: persisting it down (page history and authors); persist it down (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “persisting it down.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/persisting_it_down. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.