outpour

English edit

Etymology edit

out- +‎ pour

Pronunciation edit

(UK)
- (noun): enPR: outʹpô, IPA^(key): /ˈaʊ̯tpɔː(ɹ)/
- Audio (Southern England) (file)
- (verb): enPR: out-pôʹ, IPA^(key): /aʊ̯tˈpɔː(ɹ)/
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(US)
- (noun): enPR: outʹpôr, IPA^(key): /ˈaʊ̯tpɔɹ/
- (verb): enPR: out-pôrʹ, IPA^(key): /aʊ̯tˈpɔɹ/

Noun edit

outpour (plural outpours)

The act of pouring out.

Verb edit

outpour (third-person singular simple present outpours, present participle outpouring, simple past and past participle outpoured)

(transitive) To pour out.
- 1845 February, — Quarles [pseudonym; Edgar Allan Poe], “The Raven”, in The American Review‎^[1], volume I, number II, New York, N.Y., London: Wiley & Putnam, […], →OCLC:
  But the raven, sitting lonely on the placid bust, spoke only / That one word, as if his soul in that one word he did outpour.
- 1914, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, A True Dream:
  I unsealed the vial mystical, / I outpoured the liquid thing, / And while the smoke came wreathing out, / I stood unshuddering.

Anagrams edit

pour out, up or out, up-or-out