'Pour' definitions:
Definition of 'pour'
(from WordNet)
verb
Cause to run; "pour water over the floor"
verb
Move in large numbers; "people were pouring out of the theater"; "beggars pullulated in the plaza" [syn: pour, swarm, stream, teem, pullulate]
verb
verb
Flow in a spurt; "Water poured all over the floor"
verb
Supply in large amounts or quantities; "We poured money into the education of our children"
verb
Rain heavily; "Put on your rain coat-- it's pouring outside!" [syn: pour, pelt, stream, rain cats and dogs, rain buckets]
Definition of 'Pour'
From: GCIDE
- Pour \Pour\, v. i. To flow, pass, or issue in a stream, or as a stream; to fall continuously and abundantly; as, the rain pours; the people poured out of the theater. [1913 Webster]
- In the rude throng pour on with furious pace. --Gay. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Pour'
From: GCIDE
- Pour \Pour\, a. Poor. [Obs.] --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Pour'
From: GCIDE
- Pour \Pour\, n. A stream, or something like a stream; a flood. [Colloq.] "A pour of rain." --Miss Ferrier. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Pour'
From: GCIDE
- Pour \Pour\, v. i. To pore. [Obs.] --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Pour'
From: GCIDE
- Pour \Pour\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Poured; p. pr. & vb. n. Pouring.] [OE. pouren, of uncertain origin; cf. W. bwrw to cast, throw, shed, bwrw gwlaw to rain.]
- 1. To cause to flow in a stream, as a liquid or anything flowing like a liquid, either out of a vessel or into it; as, to pour water from a pail; to pour wine into a decanter; to pour oil upon the waters; to pour out sand or dust. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To send forth as in a stream or a flood; to emit; to let escape freely or wholly. [1913 Webster]
- I . . . have poured out my soul before the Lord. --1 Sam. i. 15. [1913 Webster]
- Now will I shortly pour out my fury upon thee. --Ezek. vii. 8. [1913 Webster]
- London doth pour out her citizens ! --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Wherefore did Nature pour her bounties forth With such a full and unwithdrawing hand ? --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To send forth from, as in a stream; to discharge uninterruptedly. [1913 Webster]
- Is it for thee the linnet pours his throat ? --Pope. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'pour'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abound,
- accord,
- administer,
- afford,
- allot,
- allow,
- award,
- bail,
- beat,
- bestow,
- bestow on,
- blow out,
- brash,
- bristle with,
- bucket,
- burst of rain,
- cascade,
- cast forth,
- cataclysm,
- cataract,
- cloudburst,
- communicate,
- confer,
- course,
- crawl with,
- creep with,
- crowd,
- cup,
- deal,
- deal out,
- debouch,
- decant,
- deluge,
- dip,
- discharge,
- disembogue,
- disgorge,
- dish,
- dish out,
- dish up,
- dispense,
- dole,
- dole out,
- donate,
- downfall,
- downflow,
- downpour,
- drain,
- drain out,
- drench,
- drencher,
- drizzle,
- drum,
- ebb,
- ejaculate,
- emerge,
- emit,
- empty,
- eruct,
- erupt,
- exhaust,
- expel,
- extend,
- extravasate,
- exuberate,
- fall,
- find vent,
- flood,
- flooding,
- flow,
- flow back,
- flow in,
- flow out,
- flush,
- fork,
- fork out,
- fresh,
- freshet,
- gift,
- gift with,
- give,
- give freely,
- give off,
- give out,
- go forth,
- grant,
- gush,
- gush out,
- gushing rain,
- hand out,
- heap,
- heavy rain,
- help to,
- impart,
- inundate,
- inundation,
- issue,
- issue forth,
- jet,
- ladle,
- lash,
- lavish,
- let have,
- let out,
- make,
- mete,
- mete out,
- mizzle,
- Niagara,
- offer,
- outflow,
- outpour,
- overflow,
- patter,
- pelt,
- pitter-patter,
- plash,
- pour forth,
- pour out,
- pour with rain,
- precipitate,
- present,
- proceed,
- proffer,
- proliferate,
- rain,
- rain tadpoles,
- rainburst,
- rainspout,
- rainstorm,
- regurgitate,
- render,
- rill,
- river,
- roll,
- run,
- run out,
- run over,
- rush,
- sally forth,
- scoop,
- scud,
- send forth,
- send out,
- serve,
- set,
- shell out,
- shovel,
- shower,
- shower down,
- slip,
- sluice,
- sluice out,
- snow,
- soaker,
- soaking rain,
- spade,
- spate,
- spatter,
- spew,
- spew out,
- spit,
- spoon,
- spout,
- spout out,
- spring,
- sprinkle,
- spurt,
- squirt,
- stream,
- surge,
- surge back,
- swarm,
- swarm with,
- tattoo,
- teem,
- teem with,
- tender,
- throng,
- throw out,
- torrent,
- torrent of rain,
- trend,
- void,
- vomit forth,
- vouchsafe,
- waterflood,
- waterspout,
- weep,
- well,
- well out,
- yield