POUR


Meaning of POUR in English

I. verb

1.

Synonyms: discharge 5, disembogue, emit, flow, give off, void

2.

to send forth or come forth abundantly

medical supplies poured into the stricken area

Synonyms: flow, gush, roll, sluice, stream, surge

Related Word: issue, proceed, spring; course, rill, run, rush, swarm; cascade, cataract; deluge, flood, inundate

3.

to rain heavily

it poured for two solid days

Synonyms: drench, lash, teem

Related Word: beat; deluge, flood, stream

Idioms: come down in buckets ( or torrents), rain cats and dogs

II. noun

Synonyms: flood 2, cataclysm, cataract, deluge, flooding, inundation, niagara, overflow, spate, torrent

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