rained
RAYND/ɹeɪnd/
- 1Simple past and past participle of rain.
It rained steadily through the afternoon, soaking the fields.
It had rained for three days before the river finally burst its banks.
Note
One spelling does double duty: simple past (it rained all night) and past participle after have (it had rained). The weather use always takes an empty it as its subject, so it never turns passive. The figurative transitive use can, as in blows were rained down on him. In older texts, rained may also be an obsolete spelling of reigned.
Blows were rained down on the fallen fighter.
The crowd rained confetti on the parade.
rained is a form of rain
rain, verb: For water to fall from the sky as drops, as part of the weather. Full entry
- Spelling
- rain → rained: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /d/.
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