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Main Entry:	downpour [doun-pawr, -pohr] Show IPA/ˈdaʊnˌpɔr, -ˌpoʊr/ Show Spelled
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	tremendous pouring of rain
Synonyms:	cloudburst, deluge, drencher, flood, inundation, monsoon, rainstorm, storm, torrential rain
Antonyms:	sprinkle

Main Entry:	hurricane
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	violent windstorm
Synonyms:	blow, cyclone, gale, line storm, monsoon, storm, tempest, tornado, tropical cyclone, tropical storm, twister, typhoon, whirlwind
Notes:	a hurricane is a severe tropical storm that starts east of the International Date Line (Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico) and a typhoon is a severe tropical storm that starts west of this line (Pacific Ocean, China Sea)

Main Entry:	rain
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	downpour of water or other substance
Synonyms:	cat-and-dog weather, cloudburst, condensation, deluge, drencher, drizzle, fall, flood, flurry, hail, heavy dew, liquid sunshine, mist, monsoon, pour, pouring, precip, precipitation, raindrops, rainfall, rainstorm, sheets, shower, showers, sleet, spate, spit, sprinkle, sprinkling, stream, sun shower, torrent, volley, wet stuff, window washer
Antonyms:	aridity, dryness

Example Sentences

September is the beginning of the monsoon season and one of the rainiest months of the year.

It grows enough food to feed itself even when the monsoon disappoints.

The drained ponds fill back up when the monsoon rains arrive.

September is the beginning of the monsoon season and one of the rainiest months of the year.

It grows enough food to feed itself even when the monsoon disappoints.

The drained ponds fill back up when the monsoon rains arrive.

With each new incident of record monsoon floods, fires and earthquakes, more tremors shake the global economy.

And sunlight is weak during the three-month monsoon season.

Subsequent eruptions and mudslides during the monsoon season have made rebuilding difficult, if not impossible.

The trigger for this year's drought was last year's scanty monsoon.

Monsoon seasons can turn a year on the road into a year in the mud, so plan carefully.

Then the rain starts, hard rain, desert monsoon rain.

The spray-on waterproof leggings are engineered to withstand the monsoon season and breathe when temperatures rise.

The floods began last week in the northwest with abnormally heavy monsoon rains.

It corresponds with a weaker south-west monsoon and a longer dry season.

During the monsoon season, heavy winds blow in the wet weather.

They said they were following orders to clear illegally built shanties ahead of the monsoon season.

Thailand is used to monsoon rains at this time of year, but not of the intensity of the past few weeks.

They were unfailingly set against the backdrop of monsoon season, and there was always so much rain.

India's south-west monsoon is expected to make landfall.

The result was further chaos on roads clogged by rubble and monsoon rains.

If the monsoon lives up to expectations, the prospect of a good summer harvest will help to quell food inflation.

And so it is today when the monsoon comes, flooding the slum with black creek water and sewage.

The monsoon rains of the past month will help draw some of the criticism's sting.

The poor monsoon rains are also expected to reduce farm output this year.

It was monsoon season, absolutely pouring rain the entire time.

The monsoon finally comes, ending the crippling drought and triggering a spectacular celebratory festival.

One acre produced maize, pulses and monsoon vegetables.

Furthermore, weak monsoon seasons coincided with droughts and.

By late afternoon, dark clouds threaten, and monsoon winds.

Thailand has been hit by major flooding caused by a tropical storm followed by seasonal monsoon rains.

My mother turns it on with excessive alacrity for these dark monsoon days.

Calves often fall victim to tigers or are separated from their mothers by monsoon floods.

The flooding this year is unlike the expected annual inundation that comes with the monsoon season.

Stagnant monsoon water, abuzz with dengue-carrying mosquitoes, collects at most.

In drier areas, groves of semi-deciduous mangroves blaze red in the months before the monsoon.

In the afternoons, their twin pinnacles are lost in the monsoon rain clouds.

Agriculture, which accounts for a quarter of economic output, remains tied to the whims of the monsoon rains.

The city has a miasmic, sweetly offensive odor impregnable to the monsoon or to the daily industrial pollution.

And she no longer has to work outdoors all day in the blazing sun and torrential monsoon rain.

All it takes for that to happen is for the monsoon to fail in two consecutive years.

The effects of the monsoon will be felt by everyone.

The past month's monsoon rains will draw some of the criticism's sting.

Actually it is pretty cloudy and gets a real drenching during the monsoon.

Main Entry:	storm
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	strong weather
Synonyms:	blast, blizzard, blow, cloudburst, cyclone, disturbance, downpour, gale, gust, hurricane, monsoon, precip, precipitation, raining cats and dogs, snowstorm, squall, tempest, tornado, twister, whirlwind, windstorm
Antonyms:	calm, clearness

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