English verb: rain cats and dogs | |||
1. | rain cats and dogs (weather) rain heavily | ||
Samples | Put on your rain coat-- it's pouring outside!. | ||
Examples | It was rain cats and dogsing all day long | ||
Synonyms | pelt, pour, rain buckets, stream | ||
Pattern of use | It is ----ing | ||
Broader (hypernym) | rain, rain down | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | sheet, sluice, sluice down | ||