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rain cats and dogs

Definitions

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  • verb idiomatic To rain very heavily.

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  • verb rain heavily

Etymologies

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Unknown. Perhaps from Ancient Greek κατά (cata, "against") and δόξα (doxa, "opinion, expectation"), but see Etymology in Citations

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synonyms (13)

Words with the same meaning

  1. bucket
  2. bucket down
  3. chuck it down
  4. coarse
  5. italbrac
  6. pelt
  7. piss down
  8. pour
  9. rain buckets
  10. rain pitchforks
  11. slang
  12. stream
  13. teem

hypernyms (2)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. rain
  2. rain down

hyponyms (3)

Words more specific or concrete

  1. sheet
  2. sluice
  3. sluice down

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