raining
/ˈɹeɪnɪŋ/
raining is the present participle and gerund of rain.
Meaning of rain
Verb
rain (third-person singular simple present rains, present participle raining, simple past and past participle rained)
- To have rain fall from the sky.
- Judging by the black cloud, it will rain later today.
- To fall as or like rain.
- Tears rained from her eyes.
- To issue (something) in large quantities.
- The boxer rained punches on his opponent's head.
Noun
raining (plural rainings)
- A fall of rain.
- It was raining heavily.
- This is a way of saying that the subatomic structure of the verb “to rain” explicitly marks rainings as a kind of change that places undergo.2013, Maite Ezcurdia, Robert J. Stainton, The Semantics-Pragmatics Boundary in Philosophy, page 363
Forms of raining
| plural | rainings |
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Phrases with raining
- raining off
- raining out
- it's raining
- raining down
- raining death
- raining buckets
- raining death upon
- raining pitchforks
- raining stair rods
- raining cats and dogs
- raining dogs and cats
- raining on one's parade
11 more phrasesFewer phrases
- raining fire and brimstone
- raining like cats and dogs
- raining on someone's parade
- don't pee on my leg and tell me it's raining
- don't piss on my leg and tell me it's raining
- don't pee in the wind and tell me it's raining
- don't piss in the wind and tell me it's raining
- piss on someone's leg and tell them it's raining
- pisses on someone's leg and tells them it's raining
- pissed on someone's leg and told them it was raining
- pissing on someone's leg and telling them it's raining
Words that rhyme with raining
- training
- draining
- planing
- remaining
- waning
- aquatraining
- baning
- caning
- chaining
- complaining
- craning
- entertaining
13 more rhymesFewer rhymes
Questions about raining
- What does raining mean?
- Raining means a fall of rain.
- What is raining the present participle and gerund of?
- Raining is the present participle and gerund of rain.
- What part of speech is raining?
- Raining is a noun.
- How do you pronounce raining?
- Raining is pronounced /ˈɹeɪnɪŋ/.
- What is the plural of raining?
- The plural of raining is rainings.
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Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: raining (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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