Shower

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A brief fall of precipitation, such as rain, hail, or sleet.
  • n. A fall of a group of objects, especially from the sky: a meteor shower; a shower of leaves.
  • n. An abundant flow; an outpouring: a shower of praise.
  • n. A party held to honor and present gifts to someone: a bridal shower.
  • n. A bath in which the water is sprayed on the bather in fine streams from a showerhead, usually secured overhead: take a shower.
  • n. The stall or tub in which such a bath is taken.
  • v. To pour down in a shower: showered confetti on the parade.
  • v. To cover with or as if with a shower. See Synonyms at barrage2.
  • v. To bestow abundantly or liberally.
  • verb-intransitive. To fall or pour down in or as if in a shower.
  • verb-intransitive. To wash oneself in a shower.
  • n. One that shows: a shower of thoroughbred horses; a shower of great affection.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A brief fall of precipitation.
  • n. A device for bathing by which water is made to fall on the body from a height, either from a tank or by the action of a pump.
  • n. An instance of using of this device in order to bathe oneself.
  • n. A quantity of something that has characteristics of a rain shower.
  • n. A party associated with a significant event in a person's life, at which the person usually receives gifts.
  • n. A battle, an attack; conflict.
  • n. A shower of shit.
  • n. Used as an intensifying pluralizer or intensifier
  • v. To spray with (a specified liquid).
  • v. To bathe using a shower.
  • v. to bestow liberally, to give or distribute in abundance
  • n. One who shows.
  • n. A man whose penis appears full size both when flaccid and when erect.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. One who shows or exhibits.
  • n. That which shows; a mirror.
  • n. A fall or rain or hail of short duration; sometimes, but rarely, a like fall of snow.
  • n. That which resembles a shower in falling or passing through the air copiously and rapidly.
  • n. A copious supply bestowed.
  • v. To water with a shower; to ��t copiously with rain.
  • v. To bestow liberally; to destribute or scatter in �undance; to rain.
  • verb-intransitive. To rain in showers; to fall, as in a hower or showers.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A light, or moderately heavy, fall of rain, hail, or sleet; used absolutely, a fall of rain.
  • n. Figuratively, a full of any liquid in drops, or of solid objects in large number.
  • n. A copious supply bestowed; liberal distribution.
  • n. In pyrotechny, a device in which small stars of a slow-burning composition fall from rockets or shells, presenting the appearance of a shower of fire.
  • n. An attack; an assault; a conflict; a battle.
  • To water with or as with a shower; wet copiously with rain.
  • Hence, to wet copiously with water or other liquid in the form of spray or in drops: as, to shower plants from a watering-pot; to shower one's head in bathing; to shower a convict as a punishment.
  • To discharge in a shower; pour down copiously and rapidly; bestow liberally; distribute or scatter in abundance.
  • To rain in showers; fall as a shower: as, tears showered down his cheeks.
  • n. One who or that which shows or exhibits.
  • n. A looking-glass; a mirror.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a brief period of precipitation
  • v. rain abundantly
  • v. expend profusely; also used with abstract nouns
  • v. provide abundantly with
  • v. spray or sprinkle with
  • v. take a shower; wash one's body in the shower
  • n. someone who organizes an exhibit for others to see
  • n. a party of friends assembled to present gifts (usually of a specified kind) to a person
  • n. washing yourself by standing upright under water sprayed from a nozzle
  • n. a sudden downpour (as of tears or sparks etc) likened to a rain shower
  • n. a plumbing fixture that sprays water over you
  • Verb Form
    showered    showering    showers   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    rain down    rain    waste    ware    squander    consume    provide    cater    supply    ply   
    Cross Reference
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    mirror    rain    lavish    wet    shower bath    have    especially    take    a   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Auer    Bower    Gower    Power    bower    cower    dauer    devour    dour    empower   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    rain    spray    bath    flood    stream    torrent    cloud    blast    breeze    rush