pour

/pɔər/

/pɔ/

Other forms: poured; pouring; pours

To pour is to flow rapidly in a steady stream, or to cause something to flow. You can pour good coffee into a cup and pour bad coffee down the drain.

You can pour your heart out, pour a cup of orange juice into or out of a cup, or watch the rain pour down while a poem pours from your lips. A jet of water may pour from a spout. Listen to how the water pours in this poem from Lewis Carroll's book, Alice in Wonderland: “How doth the little crocodile / Improve his shining tail, / And pour the waters of the Nile, / On every golden scale!”

Definitions of pour

1. verb

   cause to run
   “pour water over the floor”

   types:

   pour forth, shed, spill

   flow or cause to flow out

   dribble, drip, drop

   let or cause to fall in drops

   transfuse

   pour out of one vessel into another

   effuse, pour out

   pour out

   decant, pour out

   pour out

   type of:

   displace, move

   cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense
2. verb

   pour out
   synonyms: decant, pour out
3. verb

   flow in a spurt
   “Water poured all over the floor”

   types:

   gush, spirt, spout, spurt

   gush forth in a sudden stream or jet

   regurgitate

   pour or rush back

   pump

   flow intermittently

   blow

   spout moist air from the blowhole

   whoosh

   gush or squirt out

   type of:

   course, feed, flow, run

   move along, of liquids
4. verb

   rain heavily
   “Put on your rain coat-- it's pouring outside!”

   synonyms: pelt, rain buckets, rain cats and dogs, stream

   types:

   sheet

   come down as if in sheets

   sluice, sluice down

   pour as if from a sluice

   type of:

   rain, rain down

   precipitate as rain
5. verb

   move in large numbers
   “people were pouring out of the theater”

   synonyms: pullulate, stream, swarm, teem

   types:

   pour out, spill out, spill over

   be disgorged

   type of:

   crowd, crowd together

   to gather together in large numbers
6. verb

   supply in large amounts or quantities
   “We poured money into the education of our children”

   type of:

   furnish, provide, render, supply

   give something useful or necessary to