Word Finder - shower

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A brief fall of precipitation (spell of rain, or a similar fall of snow, sleet, or cascade).

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Today there will be frequent showers and some sunny spells.

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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.

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• shower bath

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An instance of using of this device in order to bathe oneself.

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I′m going to have a shower.

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• shower bath

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A quantity of something that has characteristics of a rain shower.

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a shower of sparks;  a meteor shower;  a Gatorade shower

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A party associated with a significant event in a person's life, at which the person usually receives gifts.

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Her church group has planned an adoption shower.

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A battle, an attack; conflict.

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A shower of shit.

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(with of and an invective) Used as an intensifying pluralizer or intensifier

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(followed by with) To spray with (a specified liquid).

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To bathe using a shower.

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To bestow liberally, to give or distribute in abundance

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To rain in a shower; to cascade down.

After a warm shower, she felt better.

The shower was on, and she was singing.

In the shower, she lifted her face to the warm water.

After a shower and breakfast I was on my way.

He trotted up the stairs to the second floor of the house and walked into the bathroom, eager for his first hot shower in days.

I'm going to take a warm shower.

Her first shower in days made her want to stay in the hot water forever, until one of the men staying at the hostel entered the bathroom.

Having learned that there were many charitable institutions in Moscow he mentally decided that he would shower favors on them all.

It looks like he'd just come out of the shower and got it from behind, with something heavy.

Turning her face to the shower, she cried again.

They reached her room, and she threw down her shower things on the bed, agitated.

Instead, she marched to the bathroom and took the hottest shower she could tolerate to try and take off the alcoholic edge.

She shut off the shower and wrung out her hair, then wrapped herself in the thick towel.

I need a shower.

Now, go take your shower before you catch your death of cold.

After the obligatory shower, fresh clothes and a hearty supper, the tired body was beginning to revive, as long as the mind kept mum about tomorrow's 90 miles and the 10,850­foot climb up Wolfe Creek Pass.

A mommy shower is a good choice for a mother who already has children.

She leaned her head against the shower wall, exhausted.

While Cynthia took her shower, Dean made a few phone calls, asking for Ms. Dawkins, but after a dozen tries, he came up empty.

He was hanging up the phone when Cynthia emerged from the shower, pink and sweet smelling.

Only after both Destiny and Jonathan fell asleep did Carmen take her shower and go to bed.

Finally, while he was sleeping, she took a shower and pulled on a long nightgown.

Then she grabbed her shower gear, sandals, and a plush towel and headed to the showers.

After chores and a shower, she headed for town to shop for some furniture and get some groceries.

He woke before the alarm went off and took his shower.

It took her exactly thirty minutes to shower and change.

She'd tried to work it off in the shower but found it impossible.

After they dropped the children off and returned home, Alex worked in his office while Carmen took a shower and started getting ready.

In 1830 they came to Paris, where they sang in the streets, Rachel giving such patriotic songs as the Parisienne and the Marseillaise with a rude but precocious energy which evoked special admiration and an abundant shower of coppers.

Similarly the Bengal monsoon passes by the Coromandel coast and the Carnatic with an occasional shower, taking a larger volume to Masulipatam and Orissa, and abundant rain to Bengal, Assam and Cachar.

The climate is practically unchanging all the year round, the atmosphere being uniformly moist, and though days of continuous downpour are rare, comparatively few days pass without a shower.

The bombardment opened with a shower of gas shells, mainly directed against the artillery positions.

Hence the term is extended to signify the fall of such drops in a shower, and in the plural, "the rains," it signifies the rainy seasons in India and elsewhere where under normal climatic conditions such seasons are clearly distinguished from the dry.

His miscellanies, in some of which his satire made the nearest approach perhaps ever made to the methods of physical force, such as A Meditation upon a Broomstick, and the poems Sid Hamet's Rod, The City Shower, The Windsor Prophecy, The Prediction of Merlin, and The History of Vanbrugh's House, belong to this period.

The atmosphere in the desert regions is remarkably dry, and though a little rain falls occasionally on the lower slopes of the mountains, scarcely any falls in the desert, at the most a smart shower at intervals of several years.

In the Bell-Coleman machine the air was cooled during compression by means of an injection of water, and further by being brought into contact with a shower of water.

In such compressed-air machines as are now made there is no injection of water during compression, and the compressed air is cooled in a surface cooler, not by actual mixture with a shower of cold water.

In some coolers the cooling surfaces consist of direct-expansion pipes placed in clusters of convenient form; in others brine pipes are used; in others there is a shower of cold brine, and in some cases combinations of cold pipes and brine showers.

Her head sagged against the shower wall, and she wished she could order her body not to heal her, to let her bleed out and die so she didn't suffer anymore.

His freezing shower did little to calm his blood, and he was pissy before he saw the number of voice mails and texts awaiting him.

The break room in the back was small with a table, refrigerator and microwave, a white board listing names and schedules, and a locker room with a shower and washer and dryer.

Unable to dwell on how Hell knew what she liked for breakfast, she wolfed down the pastries and a banana before crossing to the bathroom for a shower.

But then the damn phone rang, and like a late afternoon shower on a summer picnic, turned the day to crap.

She forgot about the tarantula-cats and watched the meteor shower again, protected from the chill of evening by his body heat and the odd energy running between them.

Dean had unscrewed the base and laid the tree on a drop cloth, in a shower of dry needles, when he looked up to see a thin boy standing by the archway that separated the hall from the living room.

Although Dean didn't say it, he figured God must be partial to roasting temperature and off the scale humidity that quickly drenched his clothes like an afternoon shower.

The Reynolds home was the perfect place for Carmen's bridal shower.

At his house, she put the garden produce in the sink, and decided to take a shower.

You didn't think it was vulgar this morning in the shower.

We can stay there, so we can sleep away from the vamps and take a decent shower," he offered then added quickly, "Separately. We can shower separately.