Outpour
[,aut'pɒ:]
Definition
(v. t.) To pour out.
(n.) A flowing out; a free discharge.
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Definition
v.t. to pour out: to send out in a stream.—ns. Outpour′; Outpour′er; Out′pouring a pouring out: an abundant supply.
Editor: Tod
Examples
- She sobbed on desperately; then the outpour lessened, and she became quieter. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Emanuel made it a vessel for an outpouring, and filled it with his native verve and passion like a cup with a vital brewage. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- What was this outpouring of senseless bitterness but the tracked creature's attempt to cloud the medium through which it was fleeing? Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Instead of that critical outpouring for which he had prepared himself with effort, here was the old round to be gone through again. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
Editor: Louise