Synonyms of the word

rain

• n. Condensed water falling from a cloud.
• n. (figuratively) Any matter moving or falling, usually through air, and especially if liquid or otherwise…
• n. (figuratively) An instance of particles or larger pieces of matter moving or falling through air.
• v. (impersonal) To have rain fall from the sky.
• v. To fall as or like rain.
• v. (intransitive) To fall like rain.
• v. (transitive) To issue (something) in large quantities.

downfall

• n. A precipitous decline in fortune; death or rapid deterioration, as in status or wealth.
• n. The cause of such a fall; a critical blow or error.
• n. An act of falling down.
• v. (intransitive) To fall down; deteriorate; decline.

fall

• n. The act of moving to a lower position under the effect of gravity.
• n. A reduction in quantity, pitch, etc.
• n. (chiefly Canada, US, obsolete elsewhere) The time of the year when the leaves typically fall from the…
• n. A loss of greatness or status.
• n. (sports) A crucial event or circumstance.
• n. A hairpiece for women consisting of long strands of hair on a woven backing, intended primarily to cover…
• n. (informal, US) Blame or punishment for a failure or misdeed.
• n. The part of the rope of a tackle to which the power is applied in hoisting (usu. plural).
• n. See falls.
• n. An old Scots unit of measure equal to six ells.
• v. (heading, intransitive) To move downwards.
• v. (transitive) To be moved downwards.
• v. (intransitive) To happen, to change negatively.
• v. (transitive) To be allotted to; to arrive through chance, fate, or inheritance.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To diminish; to lessen or lower.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To bring forth.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To issue forth into life; to be brought forth; said of the young of certain animals.
• v. (intransitive) To descend in character or reputation; to become degraded; to sink into vice, error, or…
• v. (intransitive) To become ensnared or entrapped; to be worse off than before.
• v. (intransitive) To assume a look of shame or disappointment; to become or appear dejected; said of the…
• v. (intransitive) To happen; to come to pass; to chance or light (upon).
• v. (intransitive) To begin with haste, ardour, or vehemence; to rush or hurry.
• v. (intransitive) To be dropped or uttered carelessly.

freshwater

• adj. Living in fresh water.
• adj. Consisting of fresh water.
• adj. (nautical) Unskilled as a seaman.
• n. (countable) A body of fresh water.
• n. Alternative spelling of fresh water.

pelting

• v. present participle of pelt.
• adj. (obsolete) mean; paltry.
• n. The act by which somebody or something is pelted.

precipitate

• v. (transitive) To make something happen suddenly and quickly; hasten.
• v. (transitive) To throw an object or person from a great height.
• v. (transitive) To send violently into a certain state or condition.
• v. (intransitive, chemistry) To come out of a liquid solution into solid form.
• v. (transitive, chemistry) To separate a substance out of a liquid solution into solid form.
• v. (intransitive, meteorology) To have water in the air fall to the ground, for example as rain, snow, sleet,…
• v. (transitive) To cause (water in the air) to condense or fall to the ground.
• adj. headlong; falling steeply or vertically.
• adj. Very steep; precipitous.
• adj. With a hasty impulse; hurried; headstrong.
• adj. Moving with excessive speed or haste.
• adj. Performed very rapidly or abruptly.
• n. A product resulting from a process, event, or course of action.
• n. (chemistry) A solid that exits the liquid phase of a solution.

precipitation

• n. (meteorology) Any or all of the forms of water particles, whether liquid or solid, that fall from the…
• n. A hurried headlong fall.
• n. (countable, chemistry) A reaction that leads to the formation of a heavier solid in a lighter liquid;…
• n. (figuratively) Unwise or rash rapidity; sudden haste.

rainfall

• n. (meteorology) the amount of rain that falls on a single occasion.

rainwater

• n. Rainfall.
• n. Water (for a house etc) sourced from rain which has not joined a spring, stream or river, pond, lake or…

sequence

• n. A set of things next to each other in a set order; a series.
• n. A series of musical phrases where a theme or melody is repeated, with some change each time, such as in…
• n. A musical composition used in some Catholic Masses between the readings. The most famous sequence is the…
• n. (mathematics) An ordered list of objects.
• n. (now rare) A subsequent event; a consequence or result.
• n. A series of shots that depict a single action or style in a film, television show etc.
• n. (card games) A meld consisting of three or more cards of successive ranks in the same suit, such as the…
• v. (transitive) to arrange in an order.
• v. (transitive) to determine the order of things, especially of amino acids in a protein, or of bases in…
• v. (transitive) to produce (music) with a sequencer.

succession

• n. An act of following in sequence.
• n. A sequence of things in order.
• n. A passing of royal powers.
• n. A group of rocks or strata that succeed one another in chronological order.
• n. (obsolete, rare) The person who succeeds to rank or office; a successor or heir.

successiveness

• n. The quality or state of being successive.