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raining out

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

Meaning of rain out

Verb

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

  1. (match, picnic, etc) To be cancelled due to rain.

Questions about raining out

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

Words near raining out in the dictionary

  1. raining fire and brimstone
  2. raining like cats and dogs
  3. raining off
  4. raining on one's parade
  5. raining on someone's parade
  6. raining out
  7. raining pitchforks
  8. raining stair rods
  9. rainings
  10. rainish
  11. rainjacket

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