Definitions
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- adjective Resembling
rain .
Etymologies
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rain + -like
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Examples
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There, carefully cultivated stalks flourish under the glare of artificial lights and the rainlike spatter of drip irrigation.
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This morning was dark and threatening and looked rainlike.
Diary of Samuel A. Agnew : September 27, 1863-June 30, 1864, 1957
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Mrs Verloc closed her eyes desperately, throwing upon that vision the night of her eyelids, where after a rainlike fall of mangled limbs the decapitated head of Stevie lingered suspended alone, and fading out slowly like the last star of a pyrotechnic display.
The Secret Agent; a Simple Tale Joseph Conrad 1890
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