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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
downpour
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
torrential
▪ Two fire crews from Bury attended the crash which happened in a torrential downpour.
▪ Thunder, lightning and a torrential downpour provided an unreal prelude in the futuristic San Nicola stadium.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ At this time of the year, most of the country here was flooded, and heavy downpours punctuated the day.
▪ For the past six hours the downpour had been continuous and torrential.
▪ He was walking home from the office in a misting rain when the heavens erupted in a downpour.
▪ Motorbikes scooted for cover on the street, and a moment later the downpour began.
▪ The rain pelted down in sudden bursts, but the downpours did not amount to much.
▪ Water resistance: coped well with showers and persistent light rain, though some water penetrated in downpours.
▪ Waterproofness: no leaks even during heavy downpours.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Downpour

Downpour \Down"pour`\, n. A pouring or streaming downwards; esp., a heavy or continuous shower.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
downpour

1811, from verbal phrase, down (adv.) + pour (v.).

Wiktionary
downpour

n. a heavy rain vb. (context intransitive English) To pour down; rain heavily.

WordNet
downpour

n. a heavy rain [syn: cloudburst, deluge, waterspout, torrent, pelter, soaker]

Wikipedia
Downpour

Downpour may refer to:

  • Heavy rain
  • Downpour (album), a 1999 music album by Mannafest
  • "Downpour", a song from Unbreakable (Backstreet Boys album)
  • A fictional superhero in the animated series Justice League Unlimited
  • Silent Hill: Downpour, the eighth installment in video game series Silent Hill
  • " Northern Downpour", the fourth and final single from Panic! at the Disco's second album, Pretty. Odd.
Downpour (album)

Downpour is the debut album of Mannafest, before the band changed its name to Edison and later to Edison Glass.

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!

Generally in these latitudes one encounters extremely heavy downpours, which make it possible to collect water by Page 80 Amundsen, Ronald - The South Pole, Vol.