Pour Definition

pôr

poured, pouring, pours

verb

poured, pouring, pours

To cause to flow in a continuous stream.

Webster's New World

To emit, discharge, supply, utter, etc. profusely or steadily.

Webster's New World

To pour a liquid or particles into (a container).

Poured a glass of milk.

American Heritage

To empty (a container) of a liquid or granular solid.

Poured a bucket of sand on the ground.

American Heritage

To rush in a crowd; swarm.

Webster's New World

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noun

pours

An act of pouring.

Webster's New World

A heavy rain or downpour.

Webster's New World

Something, or an amount, poured.

Wiktionary

(colloquial) A stream, or something like a stream; especially a flood of precipitation.

A pour of rain. --Miss Ferrier.

Wiktionary

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idiom

pour it on

American Heritage

pour it on

Webster's New World

Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Pour

Displaced native Middle English schenchen, schenken (“to pour") (from Old English scencan (“to pour out")), ȝeoten, yetten (“to pour") (from Old English Ä¡Ä“otan (“to pour")), temen (“to pour out, empty") (from Old Norse tÇ¿ma (“to pour out, empty")), birlen (“to pour, serve drink to") (from Old English byrelian (“to pour, serve drink to")), hellen (“to pour, pour out") (from Old Norse hella (“to pour out, incline")).

From Wiktionary
From Middle English pouren, pouren (“to pour"). Origin uncertain. Likely of Celtic origin, from Celtic base *purr- (“to jerk, throw (water)"). Akin to Welsh bwrw (“to cast; to strike; to rain"), Scottish Gaelic purr (“to push, thrust, urge, drive"), Irish purraim (“I push, I jerk").

From Wiktionary
Middle English pouren perhaps from Old North French purer to sift, pour out from Latin pūrāre to purify from pūrus pure peuə- in Indo-European roots

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition