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Synonyms for raining

Grammar : Verb
Spell : reyn
Phonetic Transcription : reɪn

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Définition of raining

Origin :
  • Old English regn "rain," from Proto-Germanic *regna- (cf. Old Saxon regan, Old Frisian rein, Middle Dutch reghen, Dutch regen, German regen, Old Norse regn, Gothic rign "rain"), with no certain cognates outside Germanic, unless it is from a presumed PIE *reg- "moist, wet," which may be the source of Latin rigare "to wet, moisten" (cf. irrigate). Rain dance is from 1867; rain date in listings for outdoor events is from 1948. To know enough to come in out of the rain (usually with a negative) is from 1590s. Rainshower is Old English renscur.
  • verb drop water or other substance
Example sentences :
  • It knocked off raining, but we shifted ourselves at the galley fire below.
  • Extract from : « Ned Myers » by James Fenimore Cooper
  • Many a time and oft he has let me go to St. Penfer when it was raining and blowing.
  • Extract from : « A Singer from the Sea » by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
  • The driver got down from his seat, and declared it was raining too hard for him to remain on the box—'
  • Extract from : « His Masterpiece » by Emile Zola
  • It was raining in torrents, and the quay was absolutely deserted.
  • Extract from : « His Masterpiece » by Emile Zola
  • If it was raining, he would sit in the shop reading his newspaper.
  • Extract from : « L'Assommoir » by Emile Zola
  • It was not raining when she awoke, but the morning was gray and cloudy.
  • Extract from : « Thankful's Inheritance » by Joseph C. Lincoln
  • She observed that it might be raining, it had looked that way before dinner.
  • Extract from : « Cap'n Dan's Daughter » by Joseph C. Lincoln
  • It was raining, the long stretches of salt marsh were windswept and brown and bleak.
  • Extract from : « The Portygee » by Joseph Crosby Lincoln
  • In Samoa you needn't look out of the window to see if it is raining.
  • Extract from : « Wild Justice: Stories of the South Seas » by Lloyd Osbourne
  • He fancied from the patter on the shingle roof, that it was raining outside.
  • Extract from : « The Greater Power » by Harold Bindloss
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