pour out

pour out

English

Verb

pour out (third-person singular simple present pours out, present participle pouring out, simple past and past participle poured out)

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

   I poured out three beers for my guests.

3. (transitive) To distribute or spread (something), as if it were a liquid.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, 2 Chronicles 34:25b:

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

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

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

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

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

Derived terms

• pour one's heart out
• pour one out

Translations

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

Armenian: բխել (hy) (bxel) Chinese: Mandarin: 倒出 (zh) (dàochū) Czech: vylévat, vylít (cs), vysypat (cs) Esperanto: ŝuti (eo) Finnish: vuodattaa (fi) French: verser (fr) German: ausgießen (de) Ido: varsar (io) Japanese: 注ぎ出す (そそぎだす, sosogidasu) Latin: fundō Maori: tāhoro Mongolian: гоожих (mn) (goožix) Polish: wylewać (pl), wylać (pl), wysypać Portuguese: despejar (pt) Russian: вылива́ть (ru) impf (vylivátʹ), вы́лить (ru) pf (výlitʹ), высыпа́ть (ru) impf (vysypátʹ), вы́сыпать (ru) pf (výsypatʹ) (friable material, not liquid) Ukrainian: виливати (vylyvaty)

Anagrams

• outpour, up or out, up-or-out