pour down

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pour down

verb pours down · pouring down · poured down

intransitive To rain heavily. 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.
Similar: bucket down, chuck it down, lash down, pelt, pelt down, piss down, pour, rain cats and dogs, stream, teem, whip down

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@misc{pour_down_2026,
  title = {pour down},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/pour%20down},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}