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Adjective: pouring  po-ring
  1. Flowing profusely
    "pouring flood waters";
    - gushing
Verb: pour  por
  1. Gradually cause (a liquid) to flow out from a container (esp. leaving behind any sediment)
    "the sommelier poured the wines";
    - decant, pour out
     
  2. Cause to run
    "pour water over the floor"
     
  3. Move in large numbers
    "people were pouring out of the theatre";
    - swarm, stream, teem, pullulate
     
  4. Flow in a spurt
    "Water poured all over the floor"
     
  5. Supply in large amounts or quantities
    "We poured money into the education of our children"
     
  6. Rain heavily
    "Put on your rain coatit's pouring outside!";
    - pelt, rain cats and dogs [informal], rain buckets [informal], belt down [informal], pelt down [informal], bucket [Brit, informal], teem [informal], tip [Brit, informal], chuck it down [Brit, informal], chuck [Brit, informal]

See also: drink down, running

Type of: course, crowd, crowd together, displace, feed, flow, furnish, move, offer, provide, rain, rain down, render, run, supply

Encyclopedia: Pouring

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