Synonyms of pours

pours

verb

present tense third-person singular of pour

1

as in streams

to cause to flow in a stream

she lifted the teakettle and poured some hot water from the spout

Synonyms & Similar Words

• streams
• floods
• trickles
• inundates
• overflows
• ladles
• cascades
• spoons
• deluges

2

as in flows

to move in a stream

water gently pouring down the canal toward the dam

Synonyms & Similar Words

• flows
• streams
• runs
• rolls
• drips
• rushes
• emanates
• floods
• gushes
• springs
• arises
• spouts
• trickles
• races
• engulfs
• inundates
• overflows
• effuses
• flushes
• ripples
• spurts
• courses
• issues
• dribbles
• sheets
• cascades
• overruns
• swamps
• deluges
• fountains
• disembogues
• washes out
• riffles
• gutters

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• backs up
• hardens
• coagulates
• sets
• gels
• congeals
• clots

3

as in rushes

to flow out in great quantities or with force

tears pouring down his cheeks

Synonyms & Similar Words

• rushes
• streams
• gushes
• squirts
• spouts
• spews
• splashes
• rolls
• spurts
• jets
• runs
• washes
• floods
• flushes
• swooshes
• sloshes
• swells
• surges
• drowns
• cascades
• engulfs
• inundates
• submerges
• overflows
• overwhelms
• issues
• deluges
• sluices
• swamps
• plashes
• fountains
• submerses

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• drops
• trickles
• drips
• dribbles
• sprinkles
• leaks
• weeps
• seeps
• percolates
• oozes
• bleeds
• exudes
• spatters
• strains

4

as in rains

to fall as water in a continuous stream of drops from the clouds

it's pouring outside, so you'd better take an umbrella

Synonyms & Similar Words

• rains
• precipitates
• floods
• storms
• drowns
• spits
• showers
• rains cats and dogs
• hails
• engulfs
• inundates
• deluges
• swamps
• squalls

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• spits
• drizzles
• sprinkles
• mists
• mizzles

5

as in lavishes

to give readily and in large quantities

repeatedly poured money into the revitalization of the downtown area

Synonyms & Similar Words

• lavishes
• showers
• rains
• heaps
• gushes
• streams
• floods
• overwhelms
• hails
• inundates
• overflows
• bombards
• swamps

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• retains
• keeps
• reserves
• withholds
• holds back

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of pours

And Josh, who pours his guilt into a publicity campaign to try and find his missing son. —Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 7 Sep. 2025

Enthusiasm builds on announcement day, shares trade up, and money pours in. —Jim Osman, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025

The three-time Oscar winner pours all his love for the source material into a deeply sentimental homage that is cloying at points, but also reduced me to tears about halfway in. —Radhika Seth, Vogue, 5 Sep. 2025

Wetlands need restoration to impound phosphorus that pours from extinct volcanoes and prevent the growth of deadly algae. —Debra Utacia Krol, USA Today, 2 Sep. 2025

Dreamy natural light pours in through the cafe's many windows. —Endia Fontanez, AZCentral.com, 22 Aug. 2025

As for the dirt in the ink, which conjures up images of Dickinson with a trowel in the graveyard at night, lightning cracking overhead as rain pours down? —Peter Larsen, Oc Register, 19 Aug. 2025

The silent generation leader, who has signed Bill Gates’ The Giving Pledge, instead pours the profits from selling her non-voting shares into charity. —Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 19 Aug. 2025

How much natural light pours in from windows can make or break a space’s ambience. —Katherine McLaughlin, Architectural Digest, 11 Aug. 2025