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rained buckets

rained buckets is the simple past and past participle of rain buckets.

Meaning of rain buckets

Verb

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

  1. (idiomatic) To rain heavily
    • After lunching, Caesar went out to post some cards, and as it was raining buckets, he took refuge in the arcades of the Piazza Esedra1923, Pío Baroja, Caesar or Nothing

Questions about rained buckets

What is rained buckets the simple past and past participle of?
Rained buckets is the simple past and past participle of rain buckets.

Words near rained buckets in the dictionary

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

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