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Downpour vs Onding - What's the difference?

downpour | onding |

As nouns the difference between downpour and onding

is that downpour is a heavy rain while onding is breathing; smelling or onding can be a heavy, continuous fall of rain or snow; a downpour.

As a verb downpour

is to pour down; rain heavily.

downpour

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • a heavy rain
    • They got caught in a downpour without an umbrella and came back soaked.

    Synonyms

    * cloudburst * deluge * rain * rainstorm * storm * wet * torrent * monsoon * inundation

    Related terms

    * rain cats and dogs

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To pour down; rain heavily.
  • * 2002 , Patricia Koretchuk, Chasing the comet: a Scottish-Canadian life - Page 211 :
    • It started to downpour , so Billy and I made our way back to our house, with Scotty following—or so I thought.

    Derived terms

    * (l)

    onding

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) ondyng, equivalent to .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Breathing; smelling.

    • Etymology 2

    From .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A heavy, continuous fall of rain or snow; a downpour.