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pour out one's heart

pour out one's heart is the alternative form of pour one's heart out.

Meaning of pour one's heart out

Verb

pour one's heart out (third-person singular simple present pours one's heart out, present participle pouring one's heart out, simple past and past participle poured one's heart out)

  1. (idiomatic, intransitive) To express one's innermost thoughts or feelings effusively.
    • He poured his heart out to them, so as he never could in any other company, where he hath generally passed for being moody, or supercilious and silent.1852, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 29, in The History of Henry Esmond, Esq.

Forms of pour out one's heart

third-person singular presentpours out one's heart
present participlepouring out one's heart
past participlepoured out one's heart
pastpoured out one's heart

Questions about pour out one's heart

What is pour out one's heart the alternative form of?
Pour out one's heart is the alternative form of pour one's heart out.

Words near pour out one's heart in the dictionary

  1. pour oil on troubled waters
  2. pour one out
  3. pour one's heart out
  4. pour one's soul out
  5. pour out
  6. pour out one's heart
  7. pour out one's soul
  8. pour over
  9. pour with rain
  10. pour'd
  11. pour-over

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