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poured

[pawr, pohr] Origin

pour

[pawr, pohr]
verb (used with object)
1.
to send (a liquid, fluid, or anything in loose particles) flowing or falling, as from one container to another, or into, over, or on something: to pour a glass of milk; to pour water on a plant.
2.
to emit or propel, especially continuously or rapidly: The hunter poured bullets into the moving object.
3.
to produce or utter in or as in a stream or flood (often followed by out): to pour out one's troubles to a friend.
verb (used without object)
4.
to issue, move, or proceed in great quantity or number: Crowds poured from the stadium after the game.
5.
to flow forth or along; stream: Floodwaters poured over the embankments.
6.
to rain heavily (often used impersonally with it as subject): It was pouring, but fortunately we had umbrellas.

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Poured is always a great word to know.
So is bezoar. Does it mean:
a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
noun
7.
the act of pouring.
8.
an abundant or continuous flow or stream: a pour of invective.
9.
a heavy fall of rain.

Origin:
1300–50; Middle English pouren; origin uncertain

pour·a·ble, adjective
pour·a·bil·i·ty, noun
pour·er, noun
pour·ing·ly, adverb
in·ter·pour, verb (used with object)
EXPAND
re·pour, verb (used with object)
trans·pour, verb (used with object)
un·pour·a·ble, adjective
un·poured, adjective
COLLAPSE

pause, paws, pores, pours.
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Word Origin & History

pour
c.1300, perhaps from O.Fr. (Flanders dialect) purer "to sift (grain), pour out (water)," from L. purare "to purify," from purus "pure" (see pure). Replaced O.E. geotan.
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