raining

Pronunciation

Homophones

• reigning
• reining

Verb

Plain form rain

Third-person singular rains

Past tense rained

Past participle rained

Present participle raining

1. The present participle of rain.

   It was raining when I talked to you earlier but it has stopped now.

   It's been raining all day and I wish it would stop.

   If it wasn't raining we could go to the park.