(intransitive) To rain heavily.

(intransitive) To rain heavily; to sleet, snow or hail heavily.

plural of down tube

(cycling) A tube in the bicycle frame that connects the bottom bracket shell to the head tube.

(finance) To lose value on the stock exchange. / To sell something and replace it with something cheaper. / (sports) To exchange a higher selection in a player draft for a lower one.

(of a spacecraft or other flying object) To land in water. / (idiomatic) To appear, seemingly from nowhere.

(transitive) To cause to fall down and break by hitting it hard. / (intransitive) To fall heavily.

(transitive) To cause (a moving vehicle) to stop by using an arm gesture.

(transitive) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see chop, down. / (idiomatic, transitive) To curtail, shorten

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see climb, down. / (idiomatic, sometimes followed by from) To abandon, withdraw from, or soften a previously expressed opinion, argument, etc.