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rained

/ɹeɪnd/

rained is the simple past and past participle of rain.

Meaning of rain

Verb

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

  1. (impersonal) To have rain fall from the sky.
    • Judging by the black cloud, it will rain later today.
  2. (figuratively, intransitive) To fall as or like rain.
    • Tears rained from her eyes.
  3. (figuratively, transitive) To issue (something) in large quantities.
    • The boxer rained punches on his opponent's head.

See all 7 meanings of rain

Phrases with rained

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Words that rhyme with rained

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Questions about rained

What is rained the simple past and past participle of?
Rained is the simple past and past participle of rain.
How do you pronounce rained?
Rained is pronounced /ɹeɪnd/.

Words near rained in the dictionary

  1. raindroplets
  2. raindroppy
  3. raindrops
  4. raine
  5. Raine syndrome
  6. rained
  7. rained buckets
  8. rained cats and dogs
  9. rained death
  10. rained death upon
  11. rained dogs and cats

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rained (page history and authors); rain (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.

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