rain out

1. Force the cancellation or postponement of some event owing to bad weather. For example, Our picnic was rained out, but we hope to have it next week. [1920s]

Example Sentences

The family covered up the broken windows with bin bags to keep the wind and rain out during the height of the storm.

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The environmental group has been conducting habitat restoration in the reserve since 2019, with this weekend’s event also a late celebration of Earth Day, after a prior event was rained out.

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“We still have a little bit of rain out there now so those totals could go up a bit,” Kittell said, but it won’t be by much.

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It was the second part of a game that started on June 26, but got rained out.

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“Imagine a rain cloud, but instead of water droplets coming down, it's like molten rock droplets raining out of the sky,” says Prof Drabon.

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