pour down
English
Verb
pour down (third-person singular simple present pours down, present participle pouring down, simple past and past participle poured down)
- (intransitive) To rain heavily.
- 1922 February, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare & Co.; Sylvia Beach, OCLC 560090630; republished London: Published for the Egoist Press, London by John Rodker, Paris, October 1922, OCLC 2297483:Episode 12, The Cyclops
- A torrential rain poured down from the floodgates of the angry heavens upon the bared heads of the assembled multitude which numbered at the lowest computation five hundred thousand persons.
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Synonyms
(to rain very heavily):
- bucket down
- chuck it down
- lash down
- pelt
- pelt down
- piss down
- pour
- rain cats and dogs
- stream
- teem
- whip down
Anagrams
- downpour