FOUNTAINED Synonyms: 43 Similar and Opposite Words

fountained

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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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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

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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

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The Speed actor met Hollinger — who raced motorcycles as a child until age 34, eventually launching his own custom-bike building business — in 2009, when Reeves commissioned Hollinger to build a bike for him.

— Kimberly Nordyke, HollywoodReporter, 6 July 2026
An islandwide blackout plunged Cuba’s nearly 10 million residents into darkness Monday, exposing a crumbling power grid and dwindling fuel reserves as officials raced to restore electricity.

— Milexsy Durán, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2026

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Because none of this can be rushed, buying a company that already has one of these advantages is often more efficient than building it from scratch.

— Charlotte Kiang, Forbes.com, 9 July 2026
First responders tried to resuscitate him, emergency medicine technicians intubated him and rushed him by ambulance to the hospital.

— Pamela McLoughlin, Hartford Courant, 9 July 2026

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Graphic videos of the shooting flooded social media and politicians on both sides of the aisle condemned the killing – one example of the political violence roiling America in recent years.

— Nicki Brown, CNN Money, 11 July 2026
The pipes had clogged and the room was flooded with sewage coming up a drain.

— Itzel Luna, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2026

Definition of flooded

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Platner's withdrawal caps days of turmoil that had engulfed his campaign and intensifies pressure on Democratic leaders to quickly coalesce around an alternative candidate.

— Phillip M. Bailey, USA Today, 9 July 2026
After the crash, the motorcycle caught fire and was engulfed in flames, police said.

— Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 9 July 2026

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