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powre

powre is the obsolete form of power.

powre is the obsolete form of pour.

Meaning of power

Noun

power (countable and uncountable, plural powers)

  1. The ability to do or undergo something.
    • He has lost the power to speak.
    Synonyms:
    kick
  2. (social) The ability to coerce, influence, or control.
    • The proportion of female colleagues in the Hsinchu County Government and its affiliated units has reached 61%. “Women Power” is the power behind over half of the services provided by the county government.2022 March 8, “Magistrate Yang Wen-ke Sends Female Staff in Hsinchu County Government Roses for Their Contributions”, in HsinChu County Government, archived from the original on 19 Jul 2022
    1. (countable, social) The ability to affect or influence.
      • the power of the written word
    2. (social) The ability or authority to control, govern, command, coerce, etc., such as in a legal, political or business sphere.
      • He's nominally president, but he does not have any real power.
    3. (in plural, metonymically, social) The people in charge of legal or political power, the government.
    4. (metonymically, social) A strong or influential nation, company, or other such body.
      • In the 19th century, Britain and France were major colonial powers.

See all 30 meanings of power

Meaning of pour

Verb

pour (third-person singular simple present pours, present participle pouring, simple past and past participle poured)

  1. (transitive) To cause (liquid, or liquid-like substance) to flow in a stream, either out of a container or into it.
    • pour water from a jug
  2. (figuratively, transitive) To send out as in a stream or a flood; to cause (an emotion) to come out; to cause to escape.
    • My teacher poured scorn on my attempts at writing.
  3. (transitive) To send forth from, as in a stream; to discharge uninterruptedly.
    • Is it for thee the linnet pours his throat?1733, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Man. […], (please specify |epistle=I to IV), London: […] J[ohn] Wilford, […], →OCLC
  4. (intransitive) To flow, pass, or issue in a stream; to fall continuously and abundantly.
    • the rain poured down.
  5. (impersonal) To rain hard.
    • It's pouring outside.
    Synonyms:
    spate
  6. (intransitive) Of a beverage, to be on tap or otherwise available for serving to customers.

See all 11 meanings of pour

Forms of powre

Noun
pluralpowres
Verb
third-person singular presentpowres
present participlepowring
past participlepowred
pastpowred

Words formed from powre

Questions about powre

What is powre the obsolete form of?
Powre is the obsolete form of power.

Words near powre in the dictionary

  1. Pownalls
  2. pownd
  3. pownds
  4. POWO
  5. Powranna
  6. powre
  7. powred
  8. powreful
  9. powrefull
  10. powrefully
  11. powres

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: powre (page history and authors); power (page history and authors); pour (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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