FOUNTAINED Synonyms: 43 Similar and Opposite Words

fountained

verb

past tense of fountain

as in spurted

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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

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Elsewhere in the interview, Anstead, 47, gushed about his girlfriend of five years and praised her down-to-earth qualities.

— Juliana Ukiomogbe, InStyle, 29 July 2026
On July 20, the 58-year-old Wilson Philips singer shared a selfie on Facebook in which she was seen with the 63-year-old retired actress and gushed over her encounter with one of her childhood idols.

— Ashley Hume, FOXNews.com, 28 July 2026

Definition of gushed

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Cleveland baseball fandom has coursed through the family’s blood for generations.

— Zack Meisel, New York Times, 16 May 2026
The thrust of Mann’s speeches is that Germany, after its plunge into evil, must engage in a spiritual reckoning, a new embrace of humanity, the kind that coursed through Goethe’s writing.

— Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 14 May 2026

Definition of coursed

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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
There are two areas in my garden where fern asparagus has been growing for more than four decades, having first spouted from seeds that had been deposited, no doubt, by birds.

— Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 21 Feb. 2026

Definition of spouted

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Rainwater rushed into Filament Theatre in the Portage Park neighborhood on Monday as severe storms pounded the Chicago area.

— Charlie De Mar, CBS News, 31 July 2026
But this time around, Mohn, who was with a friend when the medical emergency unfolded, was rushed to the hospital.

— Jordan Greene, PEOPLE, 30 July 2026

Definition of rushed

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The resulting, room-sized artwork engulfed visitors in a swirling fantasia featuring bouncing balls, morphing nets and slow-motion action shots of Messi.

— Chloe Veltman, NPR, 29 July 2026
Between July and August 2003, Western Europe was engulfed by its hottest summer since meteorological records began in 1540.

— Nicole F. Roberts, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026

Definition of engulfed

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