pour in

See also: pourin'

English

Verb

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

1. (intransitive) To flow or flood into something or somewhere.
   • 2012, Monty Hale, Anne Scrimgeour, Kurlumarniny: We Come from the Desert, →ISBN, page 17:

     The rain poured in and it filled it with water while we were inside.

2. (figurative, intransitive) To arrive in great amounts.
   • 2015 February 24, Daniel Taylor, “Luis Suárez strikes twice as Barcelona teach Manchester City a lesson”, in The Guardian (London)‎^[1]:

     It will need the most exhilarating performance City have put together since the money started to pour in and the overwhelming evidence is that it looks wholly beyond them.

3. (transitive) To fill something with (a liquid) by pouring.
   • 2015, Budge, Alexander The Great, →ISBN, page 288:

     And it came to pass that some of them poured in bad wine, and some of them poured in vinegar, and some of them who were evilly disposed poured in urine; now they were wont to do this in the night during the season of harvest.

Translations

Translations

• Bulgarian: вливам (bg) (vlivam)
• Greek:

  Ancient: ἐγχέω (enkhéō)

• Mongolian: цутгах (mn) (cutgax)
• Swedish: flöda in

Anagrams

• inpour