Meaning

1 senses

  1. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, impersonal, informal)To rain very heavily.

    It's tipping it down out there.

Examples

4 sentences

  1. Luis tipped the toaster upside down.

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  2. I've got to get going, even though it's tipping it down.

    deTrotz des starken Regens muss ich losgehen. — al_ex_an_der

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  3. It's tipping it down.

    deEs gießt. — Vortarulo

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  4. It was tipping down.

    deEs goss in Strömen. — raggione

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Forms

tips it down, tipping it down, tipped it down, tipped it down
Base formtip it down · to tip it down
3rd person singulartips it down
Present participletipping it down
Past simpletipped it down
Past participletipped it down

irregular

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theytip it down
he, she, ittips it down

Past simpleLesson

all personstipped it down

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave tipped it down
he, she, ithas tipped it down

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill tip it down

Synonyms

1 synonyms
rain cats and dogs

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
tinyB1tipA2tippertipsytiptoeB2
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