say it: owt-PAW-ring
outpouring is a noun meaning "a natural flow of ground water". It carries 5 recorded senses.
a natural flow of ground water
a sudden rapid flow (as of water)
“he heard the flush of a toilet”
“there was a little gush of blood”
“she attacked him with an outpouring of words”
the rapid and continuous delivery of linguistic communication (spoken or written)
“a barrage of questions”
“a bombardment of mail complaining about his mistake”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for outpouring come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.