rain buckets

Thesaurus

Verb

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rain buckets - rain heavily; "Put on your rain coat-- it's pouring outside!" rain cats and dogs, pelt, stream, pour rain, rain down - precipitate as rain; "If it rains much more, we can expect some flooding" sheet - come down as if in sheets; "The rain was sheeting down during the monsoon" sluice, sluice down - pour as if from a sluice; "An aggressive tide sluiced across the barrier reef"