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raining buckets

raining buckets is the present participle and gerund 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 raining buckets

What is raining buckets the present participle and gerund of?
Raining buckets is the present participle and gerund of rain buckets.

Words near raining buckets in the dictionary

  1. rainified
  2. rainily
  3. rainin'
  4. raininess
  5. raining
  6. raining buckets
  7. raining cats and dogs
  8. raining death
  9. raining death upon
  10. raining dogs and cats
  11. raining down

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