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POUR

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 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Move in large numbers

Example:

beggars pullulated in the plaza

Synonyms:

pour; pullulate; stream; swarm; teem

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "pour" is one way to...):

crowd; crowd together (to gather together in large numbers)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "pour"):

pour out; spill out; spill over (be disgorged)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s PP

Sense 2

Meaning:

Flow in a spurt

Example:

Water poured all over the floor

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "pour" is one way to...):

course; feed; flow; run (move along, of liquids)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "pour"):

gush; spirt; spout; spurt (gush forth in a sudden stream or jet)

regurgitate (pour or rush back)

Sentence frame:

Something is ----ing PP

Sentence example:

Water and oil pour into the bowl

Sense 3

Meaning:

Cause to run

Example:

pour water over the floor

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "pour" is one way to...):

displace; move (cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense)

Cause:

course; feed; flow; run (move along, of liquids)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "pour"):

pour forth; shed; spill (pour out in drops or small quantities or as if in drops or small quantities)

dribble; drip; drop (let or cause to fall in drops)

transfuse (pour out of one vessel into another)

effuse; pour out; decant; pour; pour out (pour out)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP

Sentence example:

The women pour water into the bowl

Also:

pour down (drink down entirely)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Pour out

Example:

the sommelier decanted the wines

Synonyms:

decant; pour; pour out

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "pour" is one way to...):

pour (cause to run)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP

Sense 5

Meaning:

Supply in large amounts or quantities

Example:

We poured money into the education of our children

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "pour" is one way to...):

furnish; provide; render; supply (give something useful or necessary to)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something PP

Sense 6

Meaning:

Rain heavily

Example:

Put on your rain coat-- it's pouring outside!

Synonyms:

pelt; pour; rain buckets; rain cats and dogs; stream

Classified under:

Verbs of raining, snowing, thawing, thundering

Hypernyms (to "pour" is one way to...):

rain; rain down (precipitate as rain)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "pour"):

sheet (come down as if in sheets)

sluice; sluice down (pour as if from a sluice)

Sentence frame:

It is ----ing

Sentence example:

It was pouring all day long

Credits

 Context examples: 

The pouring forth of a fluid.

(Fluid Discharge, NCI Thesaurus)

I give you my word that for three days I have tasted neither food nor drink until you were good enough to pour me out that glass of water.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Prescriptions poured in from all quarters, and as usual, were all declined.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Right across the foot of the hill there had sprung up a long wall of struggling horses and stricken men, which ever grew and heightened as fresh squadrons poured on the attack.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

To the civil inquiries which then poured in, and amongst which she had the pleasure of distinguishing the much superior solicitude of Mr. Bingley's, she could not make a very favourable answer.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

He’s been pouring it down like water ever since he drove in at six o’clock, so it’s no wonder he’s like that.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Isabella, however, caught hold of one hand, Thorpe of the other, and remonstrances poured in from all three.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

She did not think much of the story; it was Martin's intensity of power, the old excess of strength that seemed to pour from his body and on and over her.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The invalid sank back upon his cushions, tired out by this long recital, while his nurse poured him out a glass of some stimulating medicine.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was really a ball of cotton, but when oil was poured upon it the ball burned fiercely.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)