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Definitions for Pours

[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.
[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.
[7] the act of pouring.
[8] an abundant or continuous flow or stream: a pour of invective.
[9] a heavy fall of rain.
[10] to flow or cause to flow in a stream
[11] (tr) to issue, emit, etc, in a profuse way
[12] Also: pour with rain (intr often foll by down ) to rain heavily it's pouring down outside
[13] (intr) to move together in large numbers; swarm
[14] (intr) to serve tea, coffee, etc shall I pour?
[15] it never rains but it pours events, esp unfortunate ones, come together or occur in rapid succession
[16] pour cold water on informal to be unenthusiastic about or discourage
[17] pour oil on troubled waters to try to calm a quarrel, etc
[18] a pouring, downpour, etc

Words related to Pours

pourrush, drain, stream, spill, spew, flow, flood, cascade, splash, gush, discharge, swarm, drench, emit, throng, teem, sheet, jet, crowd, sluice

Words nearby Pours

pourpoundage, poundal, pounder, poupart's ligament, poupart's line, pour, pour cold water on, pour encourager les autres, pour le mérite, pour oil on troubled waters, pour on the coal

Origin of Pours

1300–50; Middle English pouren; origin uncertain

Words that may be confused with Pours

WORDS, THAT, MAY, BE, CONFUSED, WITH, pourpause, paws, pores, pours

Other words from Pours

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

Word origin for Pours

C13: of unknown origin

Synonyms for Pours

cascade, discharge, drain, flood, flow, gush, rush, spew, spill, splash, stream, swarm, course, crowd, decant, deluge, drench, emit, inundate, issue, jet, proceed, rain, roll, run, sheet, shower, sluice, spout, spring, surge, teem, throng, cataract, give off, let flow, rill