downpour

From down- +‎ pour.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈdaʊn.pɔː(ɹ)/

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downpour (plural downpours)

1. A heavy rain.

   Synonyms: cloudburst, rainstorm, (rare) pourdown

   They got caught in a downpour without an umbrella and came back soaked.

   • 1951 January, H. A. Vallance, “Kyle of Lochalsh Revisited”, in Railway Magazine, page 14:

     I left Inverness on a Saturday afternoon in July in a steady downpour of rain.

downpour (third-person singular simple present downpours, present participle downpouring, simple past and past participle downpoured)

1. (intransitive) To pour down; rain heavily.
   • 2002, Patricia Koretchuk, Chasing the comet: a Scottish-Canadian life - Page 211:

     It started to downpour, so Billy and I made our way back to our house, with Scotty following—or so I thought.

• downpouring

• pour down