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Pour   /pɔr/   Listen
Pour

verb
(past & past part. poured; pres. part. pouring)
1.
Cause to run.
2.
Move in large numbers.  Synonyms: pullulate, stream, swarm, teem.  "Beggars pullulated in the plaza"
3.
Pour out.  Synonyms: decant, pour out.
4.
Flow in a spurt.
5.
Supply in large amounts or quantities.
6.
Rain heavily.  Synonyms: pelt, rain buckets, rain cats and dogs, stream.



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"Pour" Quotes from Famous Books



... which put it upon a level with the first one;" (that is, in the middle of it,) "and the third, which is of bronze, rests upon three figures which have in the middle of them some griffins, of bronze too, which pour water ...
— Val d'Arno • John Ruskin
... Arnhiem, a eu la bonte de me confier quelques antiquites provenant des anciens habitants du Yucatan et de l'Amerique Centrale, avec autorisation d'en faire prendre des fac-similes pour le Musee, ce qui me permet de les faire connaitre aux membres du Congres. Elles ont ete trouvees enfouies a une grande profondeur dans le sol, lors de la construction d'un canal, vers la riviere Gracioza, pres de San ...
— Studies in Central American Picture-Writing • Edward S. Holden
... visiting an asylum, you see two or three different patients buttonhole a fourth and pour their grievances into a listening ear, you may safely suspect ...
— A Terrible Temptation - A Story of To-Day • Charles Reade
... priests tell us that Benares is holy—which none doubt—and desirable to die in. But I do not know their Gods, and they ask for money; and when one has done one worship a shaved-head vows it is of none effect except one do another. Wash here! Wash there! Pour, drink, lave, and scatter flowers—but always pay the priests. No, the Punjab for me, and the soil of the Jullundur-doab for the best soil ...
— Kim • Rudyard Kipling
... leaden, mono- tonous sands And piled them up in a dull grey heap in the West. I carry my patience sullenly through the waste lands; To-morrow will pour them all back, ...
— Bay - A Book of Poems • D. H. Lawrence


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