FOUNTAINED Synonyms: 43 Similar and Opposite Words

fountained

verb

past tense of fountain

as in spurted

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Verb

Someone spurted hair spray on Tate McRae’s long locks.

— Jane Bua, New Yorker, 14 May 2026
Oil prices spurted higher early this week on worries that the war will keep the Strait of Hormuz closed for a long time.

— Stan Choe, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2026

Definition of spurted

Verb

That underdog context feeds into the implicit soft power competition between the Toho Godzilla releases and the American franchise from Legendary, which has spouted a whole Monsterverse involving King Kong and an accompanying TV show.

— Alison Willmore, Vulture, 30 Sep. 2026
That’s the prayerful explanation for the nonsense that spouted this week from the leaders of a football conference that hopes to grow up and be the Big Ten someday.

— Joe Rexrode, New York Times, 29 May 2026

Definition of spouted

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Those gains came even as Treasury yields raced to highs not seen in years, with traders increasing bets of more Federal Reserve rate hikes due to persistent inflation.

— Jenni Reid,Justina Lee,Fred Imbert, CNBC, 27 Sep. 2026
Ben Grice took a first-down handoff and raced 88 yards for a touchdown and the Owls (1-3) led 7-0 after one quarter.

— ABC News, ABC News, 27 Sep. 2026

Definition of raced

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Hurts was 16 for 25 for 153 yards with an interception, and Saquon Barkley rushed for 82 yards on 15 carries.

— CBS News, CBS News, 29 Sep. 2026
Technology priorities can shift quickly, and waiting until a new need becomes urgent often means higher costs, rushed implementations and operational disruption.

— Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 29 Sep. 2026

Definition of rushed

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Luhring Augustine moved into the 3,500-square-foot space in September 2020, as galleries flooded the neighborhood, lured by the low rents spawned by the Covid-19 crisis.

— News Desk, Artforum, 2 Oct. 2026
Clearly he hasn’t been flooded with offers since that accolade, so his agent has set him up with Lady Isabella, who claims to have a Netflix commission for a bio-doc about her life.

— Guy Lodge, Variety, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of flooded

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Video released Wednesday morning captured the moments when a Kansas City Police Department detective and a Clay County Sheriff’s deputy rescued a man from a pickup truck that was engulfed in flames.

— Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 30 Sep. 2026
His moves have led to hopes of eventual stability in a country that was wracked by civil war and the Islamic State insurgency that engulfed northeast and western Iraq for years.

— Matthew Lee, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2026

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