pour

Plural: pours

Verb

Verb Forms: poured, pouring, pours

To cause a liquid or granular substance to flow out.
cause to run
- "pour water over the floor"
move in large numbers
- "people were pouring out of the theater"
pour out
flow in a spurt
- "Water poured all over the floor"
supply in large amounts or quantities
- "We poured money into the education of our children"
rain heavily
- "Put on your rain coat-- it's pouring outside!"
To cause (liquid, or liquid-like substance) to flow in a stream, either out of a container or into it.
To send out as in a stream or a flood; to cause (an emotion) to come out; to cause to escape.
To send forth from, as in a stream; to discharge uninterruptedly.
To flow, pass, or issue in a stream; to fall continuously and abundantly.
To rain hard.
Of a beverage, to be on tap or otherwise available for serving to customers.
To move in a throng, as a crowd.
Misspelling of pore.

Noun

The act of pouring.
Something, or an amount, poured.
A downpour; a flood of precipitation.

Examples

It's pouring outside.
My teacher poured scorn on my attempts at writing.
pour water from a jug
pour wine into a decanter
The bartender's inexpert pour left me with a pint of beer that was half foam.
The people poured out of the theater.
the rain poured down.
The words seemed to POUR effortlessly from his mind onto the Words With Friends board.
to pour oil onto chips
to pour out sand or dust.

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English pouren (“to pour”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Old Northern French purer (“to sift (grain), pour out (water)”), from Latin pūrō (“to purify”), from pūrus (“pure”). Compare Middle Dutch afpuren (“to pour off, drain”).
To pour displaced several Middle English verbs:
* schenchen, schenken (“to pour”), from Old English sċenċan (“to pour out”) and Old Norse skenkja, from Proto-Germanic *skankijaną. Compare dialectal English shink, skink.
* yeten, from Old English ġēotan (“to pour”), from Proto-Germanic *geutaną.
* 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”).
* temen (“to pour out, empty”), from Old Norse tœma (“to pour out, empty”). Compare archaic English teem.

Synonyms

decant, pelt, pour out, pullulate, rain buckets, rain cats and dogs, stream, swarm, teem, crowd, shink, skink, spate, sweep, throng

Scrabble Score: 6

pour: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
pour: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
pour: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 8

pour: valid Words With Friends Word