poured
- 1Simple past and past participle of pour.
Rain poured down all afternoon and flooded the backyard.
He had poured the wine before any of the guests arrived.
Note
One regular spelling covers both the past and the participle: she poured the wine, the wine had been poured. Because pour can be either transitive or intransitive, the passive comes only from its transitive uses (the tea was poured, his grief was poured out). Rain and crowds that poured take had poured, never were poured. The weather use keeps an empty subject: it poured all night.
By the time we sat down, the coffee had already been poured.
It poured all weekend, so the match was called off.
poured is a form of pour
pour, verb: To make a liquid, or something that flows like one, run in a stream out of or into a container. Full entry
- Spelling
- pour → poured: add -ed
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