Idiom
rain death
Meaning
To cause severe harm or violence.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“The soldiers rained death upon the enemy camp.”
“The fighter jets rained death on the base, leaving nothing but ruins behind.”
“As the storm of arrows rained death from the sky, the defenders realized their position was no longer tenable.”
Examples
simple
“The soldiers rained death upon the enemy camp.”
contextual
“The fighter jets rained death on the base, leaving nothing but ruins behind.”
complex
“As the storm of arrows rained death from the sky, the defenders realized their position was no longer tenable.”
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