- pour
- verb
1 LIQUID (T) to make a liquid or a substance such as salt or sand flow out of or into a container: pour sth into/out/down etc: Kim poured some water into a glass. | You might as well pour the oil down the drain. | pour sb sth: Why don't you pour yourself another drink?2 TEA also pour out (I) BrE to fill cups with tea: Shall I pour or will you?3 LIQUID/SMOKE (intransitive always + adv/prep) to flow quickly and in large amounts(+ from/down/out): Smoke was pouring out of the chimney.4 ARRIVE/LEAVE (intransitive always + adv/prep) if people or things pour into or out of a place, a lot of them arrive or leave at the same time(+ into/from/through): The men poured into the hall for the meeting. | Offers of help poured in from all over the country.5 RAIN also pour down (I) to rain heavily without stopping: The rain poured down endlessly. | it's pouring/it poured: It poured all night. | It's pouring rain/hail etc AmE: It's pouring rain out there!6 pour money/aid/dollars into to provide a lot of money over a period of time to pay for something: pouring millions of dollars into education7 pour cold water over/on to spoil someone's plan, idea or keenness to do something by criticizing them: pouring cold water on suggestions that he might resign8 pour oil on troubled waters to try to stop a quarrel by talking to people and making them calmer9 pour scorn on to say that something or someone is stupid and not worth considering: The press is pouring scorn on the `do nothing' Congress.10 pour well if a container pours well, you can pour liquid easily from it11 pour it on informal to tell someone about a situation in a way that makes it seem much worse than it really is, in order to make them feel sorry for you: She was really pouring it on.pour sth out phrasal verb (T) if you pour out your thoughts, feelings etc, you tell someone everything about them, especially because you feel very unhappy: pour sth out to sb: Liam poured out his feelings of loneliness to Laura. | pour out your heart/soul (=tell someone all your feelings including your most secret ones)
Longman dictionary of contemporary English. 2004.