rain off

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Verb

rain off (third-person singular simple present rains off, present participle raining off, simple past and past participle rained off)

1. (idiomatic, transitive, usually in the passive) to cancel (an event) due to excessive rain

   Synonym: wash out

   The match was rained off because of the waterlogged pitch.

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