pour out

present singular third person pours out · participle present pouring out · participle past poured out · past poured out

1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pour, out.
2. transitiveTo serve a drink into a cup or glass.

   I poured out three beers for my guests.

3. transitiveTo distribute or spread (something), as if it were a liquid.

   […] therefore my wrath shall be poured out upon this place, and shall not be quenched.

   1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 2 Chronicles 34:25b

4. intransitiveTo leave a place quickly, and in large numbers.

   The rats came pouring out of every possible opening in the burning warehouse.

   Synonyms: spill out

5. transitiveTo talk volubly and deeply. Usually implies telling the truth.

   She started crying, and she poured out the whole story, right from the beginning.