hail

Balls or pieces of ice falling as precipitation, often in connection with a thunderstorm.

An occurrence of this type of precipitation; a hailstorm.

A rapid, intense barrage by a large number of projectiles or other objects.

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.

To have hailstones fall from the sky.

They say it's going to hail tomorrow.

To send or release hail.

The cloud would hail down furiously within a few minutes.

To pour down in rapid succession.

Healthy, whole, safe.