Rain and Shell

Rain

Rain verb - To fall as water in a continuous stream of drops from the clouds.

Show all Definitions

Shell and rain are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Shell" instead a verb "Rain".

Nearby Words: rainy, rainless, rained, rainstorm, raining

Shell verb - To remove the natural covering of.

Show all Definitions

Rain and shell are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Rain" instead a verb "Shell".

Nearby Words: shelling, shelled

burning	burning rain	burning shell
similar	similar rain	similar shell
green	green rain	green shell
small	small rain	small shell
Other adjectives: violent, sad, infamous, cold, glowing, yellow, next, different, literal, magical.

army	rain army	shell army
death	rain death	shell death

When Neo is attempting to rescue Morpheus from the building using the helicopter with a belt-fed gattling gun, the shell casings fall like rain.

Source: Film / The Matrix
In regards to Katara finding her mother's killer: when she does, she's a heartbeat away from skewering him with rain-bent-into-icicles; when she sees the cowardly shell of a man he (still) is she spares him, but does not forgive him.

Source: Forgiveness
The Matrix's raining code was ripped/homaged from the Ghost in the Shell opening scene, which didn't rain, but did change characters, and flowed across the screen.

Source: Matrix Raining Code

Cite this Source

Shell and Rain. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/rain/shell

Rain & Shell. N.p., 2016. Web. 21 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/rain/shell>.

Shell or Rain. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/rain/shell.

Google Ngram Viewer shows how "rain" and "shell" have occurred on timeline