Weather
Synonyms for pour
Synonyms for pour: teem and cascade. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 2 synonyms for pour
Interchangeable with pour in this sense
Audited under pour's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one pour carries in that sense.
- teemverb, in the sense "of rain, to fall heavily and continuously"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name pour as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- cascadecascade is a verb in the sense "to pour downward rapidly in a large flow"
one of these comes from pour's own entry in the bank, and one was audited from the other word's side of the pair. Both directions were read by a human, and only the sense quoted differs.
of rain, to fall heavily and continuously
Rain continued to pour all night, drumming against the tin roof.
The true synonym
teem
Same sentence, swapped: Rain continued to teem all night, drumming against the tin roof.
Close but different
Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.
- trickle
- freeze
- seep
Where pour turns up in the game
pour is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 4, High Camp. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzle where pour is the trap
- quaffverb, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is guzzle, in the sense "to drink something heartily", so pour is there to be ruled out.
Play pour
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so pour reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other weather words at High Camp, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. pour carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.