verb
- Cause to run.
- usage: "pour water over the floor"
- synonyms: pour
- Move in large numbers.
- usage: "people were pouring out of the theater"; "beggars pullulated in the plaza"
- Pour out.
- usage: "the sommelier decanted the wines"
- Flow in a spurt.
- usage: "Water poured all over the floor"
- synonyms: pour
- Supply in large amounts or quantities.
- usage: "We poured money into the education of our children"
- synonyms: pour
- Rain heavily.
- usage: "Put on your rain coat- it's pouring outside"
- synonyms: pour, pelt, stream, rain cats and dogs, rain buckets
adjective
- Flowing profusely.
- usage: "a gushing hydrant"; "pouring flood waters"
- synonyms: gushing
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