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English verb: pour | |||
| 1. | pour (motion) cause to run | ||
| Samples | Pour water over the floor. | ||
| Examples | The women pour water into the bowl | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Somebody ----s something PP | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | displace, move | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | decant, dribble, drip, drop, effuse, pour, pour forth, pour out, pour out, shed, spill, transfuse | ||
| Cause | course, feed, flow, run | ||
| 2. | pour (motion) move in large numbers | ||
| Samples | People were pouring out of the theater. Beggars pullulated in the plaza. | ||
| Synonyms | pullulate, stream, swarm, teem | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s PP | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | crowd, crowd together | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | pour out, spill out, spill over | ||
| 3. | pour (motion) pour out | ||
| Samples | The sommelier decanted the wines. | ||
| Synonyms | decant, pour out | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Somebody ----s something PP | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | pour | ||
| 4. | pour (motion) flow in a spurt | ||
| Samples | Water poured all over the floor. | ||
| Examples | Water and oil pour into the bowl | ||
| Pattern of use | Something is ----ing PP | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | course, feed, flow, run | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | gush, regurgitate, spirt, spout, spurt | ||
| 5. | pour (possession) supply in large amounts or quantities | ||
| Samples | We poured money into the education of our children. | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something PP | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | furnish, provide, render, supply | ||
| 6. | pour (weather) rain heavily | ||
| Samples | Put on your rain coat-- it's pouring outside!. | ||
| Examples | It was pouring all day long | ||
| Synonyms | pelt, rain buckets, rain cats and dogs, stream | ||
| Pattern of use | It is ----ing | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | rain, rain down | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | sheet, sluice, sluice down | ||
Based on WordNet 3.0 copyright © Princeton University.
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