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Heavy fall of rain
Answer for the clue "Heavy fall of rain ", 8 letters:
downpour
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Word definitions for downpour in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a heavy rain [syn: cloudburst , deluge , waterspout , torrent , pelter , soaker ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Downpour \Down"pour`\, n. A pouring or streaming downwards; esp., a heavy or continuous shower.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. a heavy rain vb. (context intransitive English) To pour down; rain heavily.
Usage examples of downpour.
Kinson lifted her away from Bremen, while Tay picked up the old man, and in a knot they fought their way back through the downpour and out of the Valley of Shale.
Afterward, with the downpour a fringe of silver off his mantle, Lord Diegan huffed through the tunnels that channeled through his mustache.
This thought kept my mind on the alert during the panting journey we made, the djin and I, one dragging the other, under the merciless downpour.
When he saw the people clustered under straw mats and raincoats in the downpour outside the bathhouse, he went to investigate.
I had learned from the madwomen in the nuthouse, kicking at the dripping canvas and beating at it with my fists and flashlight, flinging the tent flap aside and escaping into the downpour.
Hermione bundled up Crookshanks in her cloak and Ron left his dress robes over Pigwidgeon as they left the train, heads bent and eyes narrowed against the downpour.
We looked at the growth and trees all around us, dripping from the oddly violent but short-lived downpour, and at my side, Rach shivered.
The master and mistress of Beau Repos refused to allow their guests to think of leaving in the downpour.
Ducking his head against the downpour, Chantz descended the stairs, sank to his shins in the rising water, and headed for his horse tied under a shed.
Miss Tappan, was at that moment idling away the evening with a novel in front of the blazing log fire at the lounge of an inn at Srinagar, patiently waiting his return to the Vale of Cashmere, he would have braved the downpour which sent Marjorie to bed, and ordered the taciturn, cat-faced old Ali Baba to break camp and be on his way at once.
Through an open window she saw the long stringlike fronds of a nut tree dripping in the downpour, and for an awful moment she thought that she was back in the jungle.
Kirk had experienced a downpour like this only once before, on a deceptive world in 155 156 STAR TROT L tilde Fig the Taurean system.
The downpour had already loosened the topsoil enough that the horses kicked up clods of muddy earth with each step.
What a change that was, when the unending months-long procession of sunny days suddenly yielded to the implacable downpours of the Mendocino County winter!
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