outpour
English
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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, 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.
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