Meaning

1 senses
  1. (idiomatic)To rain heavily.

Examples

9 sentences
  1. The thunder is rumbling, and the rain is bucketing down.

    deDer Donner grollt, und es gießt in Strömen. — freddy1

  2. I can't go there because it's bucketing down in here.

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  3. We came home soaking wet because it was bucketing down.

  4. First it starts bucketing down, then all of a sudden the weather clears up.

  5. The sun was shining so beautifully here this morning, and now it's bucketing down.

    deHeute morgen schien so schön die Sonne, und jetzt gießt es wie aus Kübeln. — Waldelfe

Translations

3 languages

Forms

buckets down, bucketing down, bucketed down, bucketed down
Base formbucket down · to bucket down
3rd person singularbuckets down
Present participlebucketing down
Past simplebucketed down
Past participlebucketed down

irregular

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theybucket down
he, she, itbuckets down

Past simpleLesson

all personsbucketed down

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave bucketed down
he, she, ithas bucketed down

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill bucket down

Phrasal verbs

2 phrasal verbs

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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