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Definition 2024
pour_down
pour down
English
Verb
pour down (third-person singular simple present pours down, present participle pouring down, simple past and past participle poured down)
- (intransitive) To rain heavily.
- 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses Episode 12, The Cyclops
- A torrential rain poured down from the floodgates of the angry heavens upon the bared heads of the assembled multitude which numbered at the lowest computation five hundred thousand persons.
- 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses Episode 12, The Cyclops
Synonyms
(to rain very heavily):