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noun

Water falling in drops
drizzle, mist, sprinkle, sprinkling, rainfall, shower, precipitation, wet weather, downpour, torrent, pouring rain, driving rain, damp day, spring rain, cat-and-dog weather*, liquid sunshine*, mizzle*, Scotch mist*.
A rainstorm
thunderstorm, thundershower, tempest, cloudburst; see storm 1.

verb

pour, drizzle, drop, fall, shower, sprinkle, precipitate, mist, mizzle*, come down, teem, spit, set in, lay the dust, patter, rain cats and dogs*, come down in buckets*, rain pitchforks*; see also storm.

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