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say it: pawr
pour is a verb meaning "cause to run". It carries 6 recorded senses.
supply in large amounts or quantities
“We poured money into the education of our children”
rain heavily
“Put on your rain coat-- it's pouring outside!”
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 pour 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.