Checking saved dictionary data and trusted language sources. This will stop automatically if a source does not respond.
/heɪl/ · noun
(meteorology, uncountable) Balls or pieces of ice falling as precipitation, often in connection with a thunderstorm..
Their lack of good intelligence also meant that they vastly overestimated the size of their foes for far too long, hails of armor-piercing shells doing comparatively little damage compared to the high explosive that they should have been using.
They say it's going to hail tomorrow.
The cloud would hail down furiously within a few minutes.
[…] Farewel happy Fields / Where Joy for ever dwells: Hail horrours, hail / Infernal world, and thou profoundeſt Hell / Receive they new Poſſeſſor: […]
He was hailed as a hero.
Such a Son as all men hail'd me happy;
Hail a taxi.
'Cause I've got one hand in my pocket / And the other one is hailin' a taxi cab
Use hail when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Hail means (meteorology, uncountable) Balls or pieces of ice falling as precipitation, often in connection with a thunderstorm..
Common synonyms include downpouring, acclaim, come, herald.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Their lack of good intelligence also meant that they vastly overestimated the size of their foes for far too long, hails of armor-piercing shells doing comparatively little damage compared to the high explosive that they should have been using.
FreeDictionaryAPI.com / Wiktionary · Original source · CC BY-SA 4.0
Dictionary data is provided by FreeDictionaryAPI.com and sourced from Wiktionary under its stated license.