outpour

[ noun out-pawr, -pohr; verb out-pawr, -pohr ]
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verb (used with object)
  1. to pour out.

Origin of outpour

1
First recorded in 1665–75; out- + pour

Other words from outpour

  • outpourer, noun

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How to use outpour in a sentence

  • It is I now who am the wise old relative, counselling, encouraging, listening to outpours.

    In the Mountains | Elizabeth von Arnim
  • These eruptions were accompanied by prodigious outpours of lava that altered the topography of the entire mountain section.

  • Between outpours of volcanic floods he finds, after a time, traces that an ocean and rivers are wearing away the land.

    The Story of Evolution | Joseph McCabe
  • The greater the man before the public, the more he outpours himself, the more his need for mothering in the quiet of his home.

British Dictionary definitions for outpour

outpour

noun(ˈaʊtˌpɔː)
  1. the act of flowing or pouring out

  2. something that pours out

verb(ˌaʊtˈpɔː)
  1. to pour or cause to pour out freely or rapidly

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