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rain off

rain off verb: to cancel (an event) due to excessive rain.

Verb

rain off (third-person singular simple present rains off, present participle raining off, simple past and past participle rained off)

  1. (idiomatic, passive, transitive, usually) to cancel (an event) due to excessive rain
    • The match was rained off because of the waterlogged pitch.
    Synonyms:
    wash out

Synonyms of rain off

Forms of rain off

third-person singular presentrains off
present participleraining off
past participlerained off
pastrained off

Questions about rain off

What does rain off mean?
Rain off means to cancel (an event) due to excessive rain.
What part of speech is rain off?
Rain off is a verb.
What is the past tense of rain off?
The past tense of rain off is rained off.

Words near rain off in the dictionary

  1. rain men
  2. rain moon
  3. rain moons
  4. rain napper
  5. rain nappers
  6. rain off
  7. rain on someone's parade
  8. rain or shine
  9. rain out
  10. rain owl
  11. rain owls

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