pour
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Is pour a Scrabble word?
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Definition
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To cause (liquid, or liquid-like substance) to flow in a stream, either out of a container or into it.Examples: "pour water from a jug"; "pour wine into a decanter"; "to pour oil onto chips"transitive
2. (transitive, figurative) To send out as in a stream or a flood; to cause (an emotion) to come out; to cause to escape.Examples: "My teacher poured scorn on my attempts at writing."; "How London doth pour out her citizens."; "[…] I haue drunke neither wine nor strong drinke, but haue powred out my soule before the Lord."figurativelytransitive
3. (transitive) To send forth from, as in a stream; to discharge uninterruptedly.Examples: "Is it for thee the linnet pours his throat?"transitive
4. (intransitive) To flow, pass, or issue in a stream; to fall continuously and abundantly.Examples: "the rain poured down."; "The rain came pouring down When I was drownin', that's when I could finally breathe"intransitive
5. (impersonal) To rain hard.Examples: "It's pouring outside."Synonyms: spateimpersonal
6. (intransitive) Of a beverage, to be on tap or otherwise available for serving to customers.Synonyms: shink, skinkintransitive
noun (English)
1. (colloquial) A downpour; a flood of precipitation.Examples: "Then, as if to give the lie to the offensive insinuation, he mounted his horse, and rode home ten miles in a pour of rain, without a great coat or umbrella."; "But then one of Mr. Knott's men would have had to put on his coat and hat and turn out, as likely as not in the pitch dark, and in torrents of rain in all probability, and grope his way in the dark in the pours of rain, with the pot of food in his hand, a wretched and ridiculous figure, to where the dog lay."colloquial
Definition source: Wiktionary