(~s, ~ing, ~ed)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
If you ~ a liquid or other substance, you make it flow steadily out of a container by holding the container at an angle.
Pour a pool of sauce on two plates and arrange the meat neatly...
Heat the oil in a non-stick frying-pan, then ~ in the egg mixture.
VERB: V n prep, V n with adv
2.
If you ~ someone a drink, you put some of the drink in a cup or glass so that they can drink it.
He got up and ~ed himself another drink...
Quietly Mark ~ed and served drinks for all of them.
VERB: V n n, V n for n
3.
When a liquid or other substance ~s somewhere, for example through a hole, it flows quickly and in large quantities.
Blood was ~ing from his broken nose...
Tears ~ed down both our faces...
The tide ~ed in from the south.
VERB: V prep/adv, V prep/adv, V prep/adv
4.
When it rains very heavily, you can say that it is ~ing.
It has been ~ing with rain all week...
The rain was ~ing down...
We drove all the way through ~ing rain.
VERB: usu cont, it V, V down , V-ing
5.
If people ~ into or out of a place, they go there quickly and in large numbers.
Any day now, the Northern forces may ~ across the new border...
Holidaymakers continued to ~ down to the coast in search of surf and sun...
= stream
VERB: V prep/adv, V prep/adv
6.
If something such as information ~s into a place, a lot of it is obtained or given.
Martin, 78, died yesterday. Tributes ~ed in from around the globe...
= flood
VERB: V adv/prep
7.
If someone ~s cold water on a plan or idea, they criticize it so much that people lose their enthusiasm for it.
The education secretary ~ed cold water on the recommendations of a working party.
= dismiss
PHRASE: V inflects
8.
to ~ scorn on something : see scorn
to ~ cold water on something : see water