acid rain (=rain which contains pollution from factories ) forests which have been damaged by acid rain verbs the rain falls The rain was still falling steadily. freezing rain (=extremely cold rain ) the icy wind and freezing rain fine rain (=very gentle rain ) A fine rain was coming down as the game started. driving rain (=heavy rain that is falling fast or being blown along ) They struggled to walk against driving rain. pouring rain (=very heavy rain ) He left us standing in the pouring rain. torrential (=very heavy ) I woke to the sound of torrential rain.

light (=with little water coming down ) A light rain began to fall.

→ acid rain, rain drop, rainy 2 → the rains 3 → rain of something 4 → (come) rain or shine - rainless adjective → right as rain 1 (9 ) COLLOCATIONS ADJECTIVES/NOUN + rain heavy (=with a lot of water coming down ) The rain became more heavy. in the rain I left my bicycle out in the rain.

S2 W2 noun 1 DN water that falls in small drops from clouds in the sky a night of wind and rain There will be heavy rain in most parts of the country.

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Related topics: Nature rain rain 1 / reɪn /

Heavy rain synonym