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poured

/pawr, pohr/US // pɔr, poʊr //UK // (pɔː) //

浇灌,浇筑,浇注,浇铸

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to send flowing or falling, as from one container to another, or into, over, or on something: to pour a glass of milk; to pour water on a plant.
    • : to emit or propel, especially continuously or rapidly: The hunter poured bullets into the moving object.
    • : to produce or utter in or as in a stream or flood: to pour out one's troubles to a friend.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to issue, move, or proceed in great quantity or number: Crowds poured from the stadium after the game.
    • : to flow forth or along; stream: Floodwaters poured over the embankments.
    • : to rain heavily: It was pouring, but fortunately we had umbrellas.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the act of pouring.
    • : an abundant or continuous flow or stream: a pour of insults.
    • : a heavy fall of rain.
    • : a wine or other beverage: a list of the best pours.

Phrases

  • pour cold water on
  • pour oil on troubled waters
  • pour on the coal
  • pour out one's heart
  • it never rains but it pours

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbbe or make flowing

Examples

  • As zealots poured in from Arkansas and Mississippi, a wire service reporter got punched in the ribs.

  • He poured millions into building Foxcatcher Farm, a wrestling facility boasting top-of-the-line weight machines.

  • Sweat poured from underneath his helmet and down the thin points of his sandy blond hair.

  • Tumid and unstoppable, there is little that new wallpaper or re-poured driveways can do to disguise it.

  • To get there Tata poured capital into British plants and research and hired thousands of workers.

  • The clock struck ten, and clerks poured in faster than ever, each one in a greater perspiration than his predecessor.

  • There wanted but a month to the acceptable season when claims upon the house poured in which could not be put off.

  • She poured out some chocolate, took it hurriedly, and quitted the room, leaving her husband in a disheartening reverie.

  • His pacing had brought him to the opposite end of the board, where stood the cup of wine madame had poured for Marius.

  • The skirmishers crept carefully forward, and at the word poured a volley into the bushes across the stream.