shower

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  1. noun A brief fall of precipitation, such as rain, hail, or sleet.
  2. noun A fall of a group of objects, especially from the sky: a meteor shower; a shower of leaves.
  3. noun An abundant flow; an outpouring: a shower of praise.
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  • Once the shower was adjusted to her liking, she hung up the robe and stepped under the cleansing flood. —  The Cosmic Rape
  • Watching Danica Patrick take a shower was the biggest draw during the Super Bowl breaks. —  kare11.com - Top Stories News
  • Today I was still so weak that taking a shower was an extremely risky proposition. —  Blogtimore, Hon
  • The bathroom with a shower was a little optomistic, so a wash with baby wipes was a little more successful, but we enjoyed 'roughing it' and quickly learnt to like bugs and spiders as we shared our entire trip with them!! —  TravelPod.com Recent Updates
  • Close to your shower is the perfect place to tuck away a squeegee so everyone can wipe it down when they are finished (you can easily prevent mildew this way). —  MyLinkVault Newest Links
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rain ·  spray ·  bath ·  flood ·  stream ·  torrent ·  cloud ·  blast ·  breeze ·  rush ·  flash ·  fountain

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shower:   showers ·  Shower ·  showering ·  showered
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Middle English shour, from Old English scūr.

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  1. Early modern English also showre; from Middle English shour, shoure, schour, schowre, schur, from Anglo-Saxon scūr, a storm, shower (hægles scūr, hagal-scūr, a hail-shower, regna scūr, rēn-scūr, a rain-shower, wolcna scūr, ‘ cloud-shower, ’ flāna scūr, a shower of arrows, s cūr-boga, showerbow, rainbow), also poet, conflict, battle, =Old Saxon skūr, a conflict, battle, =OFries. schur, a fit, paroxysm, =D. schoer =Middle Low German schūr =Low German schure, schuur =Old High German scūr, Middle High German schūr, German schauer, a shower, storm, fit, paroxysm, =Icelandic skūr =Swedish skur =Gothic (Moesogothic) skūra, a storm (skūra windis, a storm of wind); perhaps orig. ‘a thick dark cloud, rain-cloud’; cf. Latin obscurus, and see sky.
 

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