rain out

1. 1.

   prevent or interrupt due to rain

   “The storm had washed out the game”

   Synonymswash out

   Broaderprevent

Questions about rain out

What does rain out mean?

rain out means "prevent or interrupt due to rain".

What is another word for rain out?

Close synonyms include wash out. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is rain out a common word?

rain out is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.