rain
verb [I] /reɪn/Definition
A1 If it rains, water falls from the sky in small drops: I think it's starting to rain. It's raining hard/heavily (= a large amount of rain is falling).Rain
(Definition of rain verb from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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