outpour
Americannoun
verb (used with object)
noun
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the act of flowing or pouring out
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something that pours out
verb
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That spurred an outpour of solidarity, including from Hollywood actor Mark Ruffalo, who said he had backed the initiative believing the EU could be "a leader for both women's rights & democracy".
From Barron's ● Feb. 26, 2026
In this woeful outpour, he mourns the ending of a relationship and comes to terms with the fact that people can change.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 31, 2024
They are never met with an outpour of support and empathy.
From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2023
She paid tribute to his "extraordinary" doctor and thanked everyone for "the outpour of love, support and help we've received".
From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2020
This seems to have been an inheritance from the old religious style of prayer-recitation, which required the priest to repeat the whole incantation to its finish with the outpour of one lungful of breath.
From Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula by Nathaniel Bright Emerson
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