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raining

/ˈɹeɪnɪŋ/ noun A1
  1. A fall of rain. · It was raining heavily.

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THE rain is raining all around,
A Child's Garden of Verses, p. 2 · C1
Rain may keep raining, and others go roam,
A Child's Garden of Verses, p. 17 · C1
On Saturday it rained and she worked herself up into such a frantic state lest it should keep on raining until and over Wednesday that Marilla made her sew an extra patchwork square by way of steadying her nerves.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 92 · C1
“Had it been raining all evening?”
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, p. 67 · B2

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