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raining down

raining down is the present participle and gerund of rain down.

Meaning of rain down

Verb

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

  1. (intransitive) To fall from the sky as, or like, rain.
    • I'm soaking wet because it rained down on me.
  2. (transitive) To let fall as, or like, rain.
    • In the latest supernatural incident, the sky rained down frogs.
  3. (intransitive, with on or upon) To strike (literally or figuratively) many times and/or very intensely.
    • My wrath will rain down upon you.
  4. (idiomatic, intransitive) To appear suddenly or inexplicably in large numbers.

Questions about raining down

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

Words near raining down in the dictionary

  1. raining buckets
  2. raining cats and dogs
  3. raining death
  4. raining death upon
  5. raining dogs and cats
  6. raining down
  7. raining fire and brimstone
  8. raining like cats and dogs
  9. raining off
  10. raining on one's parade
  11. raining on someone's parade

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Adapted from Wiktionary: raining down (page history and authors); rain down (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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