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to cloudbusting

9.9
To try to make rain by breaking up clouds
  • verb
  • Specialized
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  • The team tried cloudbusting with new technology to increase rainfall for the crops.

Examples

  • After hours of cloudbusting, the sky finally opened and rain began to fall.

  • They plan to cloudbust the storm clouds this weekend.

  • Scientists were cloudbusting in hopes of ending the long drought in the region.

  • We are cloudbusting to help farmers in the area.

  • The scientists employed various techniques for cloudbusting to create rain during the dry season.

  • Farmers were hopeful as the researchers started cloudbusting to help improve the water supply for their crops.

  • In an effort to combat the drought, the team focused on cloudbusting using advanced technologies.

How Effective

to cloudbusting
  • Specialized
9.9
testing
504 2.5
to trying
1.0

Surface Forms

cloudbust infinitive
cloudbusted past
cloudbusted past participle
cloudbusting present participle
cloudbusts third person singular

Morphology

cloudbusting = cloudbust (transparent) = cloud + bust + ing

The verb is a straightforward formation from the compound 'cloudbust' with the productive progressive/gerundial suffix '-ing'.

Etymology

Cloudbusting as a verb comes from cloud and busting (from bust, 'to break'), meaning to try to break up or alter clouds. So, to cloudbust is to attempt to influence the clouds, often to produce rain.