outpour

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *úd

Proto-Germanic *ūt

Proto-Germanic *ūt-

Old English ūt-

Middle English ut-

English out-

English pour

English outpour

From out- + pour.

Pronunciation

• (UK)
  • (noun): enPR: outʹpô, IPA^(key): /ˈaʊ̯tpɔː(ɹ)/

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  • (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

outpour (plural outpours)

1. The act of pouring out.

Verb

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

1. (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.

Derived terms

• outpourer

Translations

Translations

• Spanish: efundir (es) (p. us.)

Anagrams

• pour out, up or out, up-or-out