poured
past form of “pour” — cause to run
An inflected form of pour · past form.
How often you will meet it
Rank 2,306 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 7,549 times across 155,370 chapters — 0.004% of every word in the library.
What it means
verb
- cause to run pour water over the floor
- move in large numbers also: swarm, stream, teem, pullulate people were pouring out of the theaterbeggars pullulated in the plaza
- pour out also: decant, pour out the sommelier decanted the wines
- flow in a spurt Water poured all over the floor
- supply in large amounts or quantities We poured money into the education of our children
- rain heavily also: pelt, stream, rain cats and dogs, rain buckets Put on your rain coat-- it's pouring outside!
poured in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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As his class poured from Huntington Hall, he saw his father waiting for him.
The Courage of the Commonplace · Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews · Chapter 1
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But she gave him a glass of wine in which she had poured a sleeping-draught.
The Yellow Fairy Book: The Grateful Beasts · World Traditions (Celtic, Norse, Asian & Persian) · Chapter 1
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Then, being apparently dead, kerosene was poured upon him, cottonseed hulls placed beneath him and set on fire.
The Red Record Tabulated Statistics · Ida B. Wells-Barnett · Chapter 1
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I poured myself out a cup of hot coffee from the flask which Smith, my man, had filled against my return.
The Little Nugget · P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse · Chapter 1
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Kaf thrusts his snouted crags through fog: Araxes swells beyond his span, And knowledge poured by pilgrimage Overflows the banks of man.
John Marr and Other Poems · Herman Melville · Chapter 1