rain sth off
UK US rain sth out— phrasal verb with rain uk/reɪn/us/reɪn/verb [ I ]
If an event is rained off, it cannot start or continue because it is raining:
His hockey match was rained off.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Cancelling and interrupting
- adjourn
- adjourn to somewhere
- arrest
- break
- call
- call sth off
- cancel
- cancellation
- cut
- disturb
- halt
- in midstream idiom
- interrupt
- kick
- kick sth into touch idiom
- midstream
- mothball
- nullify
- shut (sth) off
- stop
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