The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word RAIN
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More clues leading to the result RAIN
- Reportedly, be in power shower
- Listening, means to check for bad weather
- Water settling in drainpipe
- Drops artist home
- Bad weather: hurried to shelter one
- A shower are in charge, we’re informed
- Resurgent Australian openers batting — what might stop them?
- God at home with warmer 21?
- Drops painter home
- With its arrival, I dashed for cover
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What does RAIN mean?
RAIN noun- Condensed water falling from a cloud.
- Any matter moving or falling, usually through air, and especially if liquid or otherwise figuratively identifiable with raindrops.
- An instance of particles or larger pieces of matter moving or falling through air.
- To have rain fall from the sky.
- To fall as or like rain.
- To issue (something) in large quantities.
- To reign.