Rained

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. Moisture emerged from the clouds and descended onto the ground as liquid droplets
2. Precipitation occurred when water vapor condensed and fell to the earth in the form of rain
3. In the past, moisture in the air condensed and fell as drops onto land or objects below

Etymology: Rain has a surprisingly unsettled origin: its ancestry reaches back to a Proto-Germanic word, "regną", whose own roots remain uncertain. Scholars have proposed a link to a Proto-Indo-European verb meaning "to flow", but the consonants do not line up neatly, so that connection stays a possibility rather than a settled fact. What is clear is how widely the noun spread. Its relatives appear across the Germanic languages, from Dutch "regen" and German "Regen" to Swedish "regn" and Gothic "rign", a sign that the word was already old and shared long before English had its own form of it. "Rained" is simply the past tense and past participle of the verb "to rain", which is built on the same family. The verb came into English from Old English "reġnian", a formation that grew directly from the noun. Because of this, the verb and the noun have always been close relatives, and the verb simply describes the action of the noun falling from the sky.

Synonyms: precipitated, drizzled, poured, showered, spattered

Antonyms: dried, cleared, stopped, abated, withheld