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hail has 3 distinct synonyms spread across 3 of its 8 senses. Each sense below keeps its own list, because a synonym belongs to a meaning and not to a word: swapping one sense's substitute into another sense's sentence is how a thesaurus makes writing worse. WordNet records no antonym for it — antonymy is a relation between word forms rather than concepts, so it is deliberately sparse.
Counts are distinct word forms across every sense. A synonym that appears under three senses is counted once here and shown three times below, under each sense it belongs to.
Synonyms, antonyms and the broader and narrower relations for hail come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Full sources and licences.
precipitate as small ice particles
“It hailed for an hour”
precipitation of ice pellets when there are strong rising air currents
many objects thrown forcefully through the air
“a hail of pebbles”