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pouring

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pour  (pôr, pr)
v. poured, pour·ing, pours
v.tr.
1. To make (a liquid or granular solid) stream or flow, as from a container.
2. To send forth, produce, express, or utter copiously, as if in a stream or flood: poured money into the project; poured out my inner thoughts.
v.intr.
1. To stream or flow continuously or profusely.
2. To rain hard or heavily.
3. To pass or proceed in large numbers or quantity: Students poured into the auditorium.
4. To serve a beverage, such as tea or coffee, to a gathering: We need someone to pour.
n.
A pouring or flowing forth, especially a downpour of rain.
Idiom:
pour it on Informal
1. To move or perform an activity at maximum speed or intensity.
2. To speak or express oneself continuously or elaborately.

[Middle English pouren, perhaps from Old North French purer, to sift, pour out, from Latin prre, to purify, from prus, pure; see peu- in Indo-European roots.]

pourer n.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.pouring - flowing profusely; "a gushing hydrant"; "pouring flood waters"
running - (of fluids) moving or issuing in a stream; "as mountain stream with freely running water"; "hovels without running water"
Translations
pouring [ˈpɔːrɪŋ] ADJ
1. [custard, cream etc] → líquido
2. [rain] → torrencial
we queued in the pouring rain for hourshicimos cola durante horas bajo la lluvia torrencial
pouring [ˈpɔːrɪŋ] adj
[rain] → torrentiel(le)
in the pouring rain → sous une pluie torrentielle
pouring consistency → consistance liquide
pouring
adj pouring rainströmender Regen; a pouring wet dayein völlig verregneter Tag; pouring creamSahne f
pouring [ˈpɔːrɪŋ] adj
a. (rain) → torrenziale
a pouring wet day → una giornata molto piovosa
b. (custard) → liquido/a

pouring [ˈpɔːrɪŋ] adj
a. (rain) → torrenziale
a pouring wet day → una giornata molto piovosa
b. (custard) → liquido/a


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Slowly it fluttered down to the earth, with its life-blood pouring out of it.
Troops were pouring in from the west and south, and pouring out toward the east.
Only at evening, as he returns from the chase, he sounds his note, playing sweet and low on his pipes of reed: not even she could excel him in melody -- that bird who in flower-laden spring pouring forth her lament utters honey-voiced song amid the leaves.
 
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