POUR FORTH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pour forth mean? 

• POUR FORTH (verb)
  The verb POUR FORTH has 1 sense:

1. pour out in drops or small quantities or as if in drops or small quantities

  Familiarity information: POUR FORTH used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• POUR FORTH (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Pour out in drops or small quantities or as if in drops or small quantities

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

pour forth; shed; spill

Context example:

God shed His grace on Thee

Hypernyms (to "pour forth" is one way to...):

pour (cause to run)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

Life streamed through him in splendid flood, glad and rampant, until it seemed that it would burst him asunder in sheer ecstasy and pour forth generously over the world.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

When there, at her own particular request, for she was impatient to pour forth her thanks to him for fetching her mother, Colonel Brandon was invited to visit her.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Nor did it take long for every stronghold to pour forth its cavalry, and every hamlet its footmen.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Mrs. Jennings wrote to tell the wonderful tale, to vent her honest indignation against the jilting girl, and pour forth her compassion towards poor Mr. Edward, who, she was sure, had quite doted upon the worthless hussy, and was now, by all accounts, almost broken-hearted, at Oxford.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)