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