Meanings
verboutpour (third-person singular simple present outpours, present participle outpouring, simple past and past participle outpoured)
present singular third person outpours · participle present outpouring · participle past outpoured · past outpoured
- transitiveTo pour out.
But the raven, sitting lonely on the placid bust, spoke only / That one word, as if his soul in that one word he did outpour.
1845 February, — Quarles [pseudonym; Edgar Allan Poe], “The Raven”, in The American Review, volume I, number II, New York, N.Y.; London: Wiley & Putnam, […], →OCLC1 more example
I unsealed the vial mystical, / I outpoured the liquid thing, / And while the smoke came wreathing out, / I stood unshuddering.
1914, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, A True Dream
Synonyms & antonyms
Also see
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*úd
- Proto-Germanic*ūt
- Proto-Germanic*ūt-
- Old Englishūt-
- Middle Englishut-
- Englishout-
- Englishpour
- Englishoutpour
Translations
Spanish efundir
- efundirTranslations
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APA
outpour. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/outpour
MLA
“outpour.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/outpour. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “outpour,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/outpour.
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