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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, esp. 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 fol. 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.
–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; ME pouren; orig. uncert.


pour⋅a⋅ble, adjective
pour⋅a⋅bil⋅i⋅ty, noun
pourer, noun
pour⋅ing⋅ly, adverb
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