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  • verb Present participle of pour.
  • noun The act by which something is poured.

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  • adjective flowing profusely

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Examples

  • We should have figured something was amiss when, after getting back on the highway, the coolant started again pouring from the heater onto the floor, but faster than I could soak it up.

    Broken Down Blues… 2005

  • Jindal and officials from several coastal parishes say the berms would close the door on oil still pouring from a mile-deep gusher about 50 miles out in the Gulf.

    His ego wrote checks his skills* can’t cash, Froma. | RedState 2010

  • I hunted with a buddy this past fall in pouring rain, less than 30 degree temps and 30+ mph winds.

    How to survive. 2009

  • Genevieve was aware only of the diatribe; she knew a flood of abuse was pouring from the lips of the Jewess, but she was too stunned to hear the details of the abuse.

    Chapter 2 2010

  • When SS tax revenue started pouring from the SS Act of 1935, Congress immediately increased spending to consume it.

    Social Security Privatization, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • The Tories seem intent in pouring in the resources, both financially and logistically, to facilitate the necessary changes - but there are two imponderables which they cannot influence solely with money and think-tanks:

    The approaching fork in the road for NI Unionism O'Neill 2009

  • Even those of us who have other labels which make us pitchforks-and-torches targets -- dykes, fags, Jews, crips, poor and not upwardly mobile -- have had a jolt, seeing how much crazy is pouring from the seams.

    Archive 2009-09-01 2009

  • While she was suffering so horribly and being so put out my crew was pouring cement in pouring rain until 9: 15 at night so that we would have work for the following day.

    Michelle Obama-What a burden! 2009

  • Even those of us who have other labels which make us pitchforks-and-torches targets -- dykes, fags, Jews, crips, poor and not upwardly mobile -- have had a jolt, seeing how much crazy is pouring from the seams.

    Seeing What's Been Broken For Centuries 2009

  • While she was suffering so horribly and being so put out my crew was pouring cement in pouring rain until 9: 15 at night so that we would have work for the following day.

    Michelle Obama-What a burden! 2009

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