Definitions for pore

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pore pore

Spelling: [pawr, pohr]

IPA: /pɔr, poʊr/

Pore is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 32 anagrams from letters in pore (eopr).

Definitions for pore

noun

1. a minute opening or orifice, as in the skin or a leaf, for perspiration, absorption, etc.
2. a minute interstice, as in a rock.

verb (used without object)

1. to read or study with steady attention or application:
2. to gaze earnestly or steadily:
3. to meditate or ponder intently (usually followed by over, on, or upon):

Origin of pore

1250-1300; Middle English pouren

Examples for pore

I sank upon the steps; every pore in my body was a fountain of cold sweat: "Have whom?"

Perspiring from every pore, we labour manfully on to the bitter end.

In each group the spores are borne on the lining of the pore.

It gave me license to pore over raw tape, again and again, to absorb the subtle clues of human behavior.

It is great fun to pore over clues and tunnel into a tree trunk like termites, and I am not apologizing for a guilty pleasure.

Well, you may; you can take your books to the library, and have a long evening to pore over them.

Had there not been photographs and memorabilia to pore over, dancing would have been the only sensible option.

It is advice to sift, pore over, and weigh up, with a view to us deciding for ourselves.

The paranoia he unleashed was so overwhelming that it seeped into every pore of society, including the Pendle witch trials.

"Let me put the pore thing to bed; she's allus used to me," said the woman piteously.