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Adjective: pouring  po-ring
  1. Flowing profusely
    "pouring flood waters"
    - gushing
Verb: pour  por
  1. Cause to run
    "pour water over the floor"
     
  2. Move in large numbers
    "people were pouring out of the theatre"
    - swarm, stream, teem, pullulate
     
  3. Cause (a liquid) to flow out from a container
    "the sommelier poured the wines"; "the sommelier poured out the wines"
    - decant, pour out
     
  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 coat-- it's pouring outside!"
    - pelt, stream, rain cats and dogs, rain buckets

See also: pour down, running

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

Encyclopedia: Pour