pour

Speech parts

1. pour - Noun

2. pour - Adjective

3. pour - Verb

Meaning

Poor.

To pore.

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.

To send forth as in a stream or a flood; to emit; to let escape freely or wholly.

To send forth from, as in a stream; to discharge uninterruptedly.

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.

A stream, or something like a stream; a flood.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

stream pour out flow pelt gush decant rain discharge shed spill swarm dribble teem pullulate rain buckets
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Antonyms

chase butcher adios slaver amble burgeon
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Hypernyms

provide move run course flow supply

Hyponyms

sluice gush decant drop sheet shed

Phrases with the word

pour cold water on pour oil on troubled waters pour encourager les autres pour one's heart out pour gas on the fire pour scorn on

Derivatives

poured pouring

Anagrams

roup puro

Examples

Be sure to guard in your heart the joy of the Holy Spirit, and do not allow the evil one to pour out his bitterness. Beware! Beware, lest the Paradise that exists in you turns into Hell. Nectarios of Aegina

Sometimes I can only groan, and suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano. Frédéric Chopin

Children are the vessels into which adults pour their poison. Salman Rushdie

Don't pour away your water on the strength of a mirage. Arabic Proverb

If you would have the lamp burn, you must pour oil into it. German Proverb

Don't pour away your water due to a mirage. Arabic Proverb

Close letter words and terms

Poupart's ligament poupeton poupou pour cats and dogs pour cold water on pour dogs and cats