单词 | overpour |
释义 | overpourv. a. transitive. To transfer by or as by pouring; to transfuse. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > transference > [verb (transitive)] > as by pouring overpour1579 transpour1585 1579 T. Lupton Thousand Notable Things v. 130 It is certain..that daungerous and many effects..are turned, or ouerpowred into him. b. transitive. poetic. To pour over; to infuse. Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ 1899 P. H. Wicksteed tr. Dante Paradiso 379 His eyes and cheeks were overpoured with benign gladness. 2. intransitive. To pour too much or beyond what is required. Also transitive: to overfill (something) by pouring. ΚΠ 1890 New Eng. Mag. 8 51 Ever and anon letting fall a glance of rebuke upon the hapless slave who dropped a dish or overpoured a wineglass. 1936 Sun (Baltimore) 26 Nov. 10/6 He overpoured on the last two drinks. 1989 R. Barr Roseanne (1990) iii. xx. 185 I would always overpour for them or not charge them at all. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1579 |
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