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発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈdaʊn.pɔː(ɹ)/

名詞

downpour (plural downpours)

1. A heavy fall of rain.

   Synonyms: cloudburst, (UK, dialectal) plash, (rare) pourdown, rainstorm

   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.

動詞

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

1. (intransitive) To pour down; rain heavily.
   • 1914, Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados

     Bank-notes fluttered down and lay about in all directions, relays of sovereigns rolled away like so much dross, bonds and scrip for thousands and tens of thousands clogged the downpouring stream of jewellery and unset gems.

   • 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.

派生語

アナグラム

• pour down