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pouring

verbnounadjectivecommon in dialogue

  • United States//ˈpɔːɹɪŋ//
  • //ˈpo(ə)ɹɪŋ//

The act by which something is poured.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of pourpresent participle and gerund of pour

noun

  1. 1

    The act by which something is poured.

    Liberal pourings of rum and Cokes helped lubricate the festivities.

adjective

  1. 1

    Flowing or falling intensely.

    pouring rain

    Steps away from where the Koningsdam docked, we hopped onto another much smaller vessel in the pouring rain, in search of whales and other wildlife.

Forms

plural
pourings
comparative
more pouring
superlative
most pouring
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).