spouts 1 of 2

plural of spout
1
as in gutters
a pipe or channel for carrying off water from a roof during the winter, runoff from the spout tends to freeze over and form a dangerous patch of ice on the walkway

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as in jets
a usually forceful stream of fluid discharged from a narrow opening kids cooling off under the spout of water from an opened fire hydrant

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spouts

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verb

present tense third-person singular of spout

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Recent Examples of spouts
Noun
Some of the pouring spouts are also located on the side of the lid instead of on top. Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 3 Aug. 2026 Splash about in North America’s largest wave pool as a shipwrecked vessel spouts water overhead at Disney’s Typhoon Lagoon. Carly Caramanna, Travel + Leisure, 31 July 2026 And teach kids not to drink from the pool or treat splash-pad spouts like drinking fountains. Angela Haupt, Time, 20 July 2026 Cascading waterfall spouts that line the middle of the pool, meantime, are specially angled to target stress points on your body. Tim Chan, HollywoodReporter, 12 July 2026 Some of the water spouts reached between 20 feet and 30 feet, geologists said. Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 23 June 2026 Glorious sculptures entangled in water spouts were erected across the city over the next century. Sophie Lindberg, Kansas City Star, 11 June 2026 Lids and spouts can quickly become traps for mold, bacteria, and grime, especially in hard-to-reach crevices. Mariana Best, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 May 2026 The icebergs, the porpoising penguins, the whale spouts visible from the deck—the sensory experience accumulated quickly into something overwhelming. Jordi Lippe-McGraw, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 May 2026
Verb
Trish coined the nickname, which is funny because Cannon never spouts off. E. Tammy Kim, New Yorker, 17 Dec. 2025 Though the dream stalker is genuinely terrifying in the 1984 original, his cultural ubiquity grew as the character became less of a boogeyman than a kind of homicidal jester, one who spouts groan-worthy one-liners before spilling your guts. Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 6 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for spouts
Noun
  • Trees would need trimming, gutters would need cleaning, dead or dying plants would have to be removed.
    Ethan Baron, Mercury News, 20 Aug. 2026
  • The renovations will include repairs to the roofs, gutters, and façades as well as the installation of more than 10,000 square feet of energy-efficient glass in an effort to shield the works within from extreme weather.
    News Desk, Artforum, 19 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • China holds a trump card in rare earths — critical minerals necessary for making many items, from smartphones to electric vehicles and fighter jets.
    Billy Stockwell, CNN Money, 21 Aug. 2026
  • In a series of Facebook posts, Romanian defense minister Radu-Dinel Miruţă said F-16 fighter jets destroyed a marine drone in the vicinity of the Neptun Deep gas project in the Black Sea on Thursday.
    Chloe Taylor, CNBC, 21 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Oversight, in other words, is thin, even as the money pours in.
    Arlene Marcus, Sun Sentinel, 20 Aug. 2026
  • Rain pours down as a shootout erupts, with Riley setting the scene in voice-over.
    Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 19 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • And his ultimate war is with Bob, a tech CEO who rants about his haters and has gotten rich off rebranded snake oil and whose obvious corruption has been obscured by his self-mythologizing.
    Alison Willmore, Vulture, 29 Aug. 2025
  • One grumbles when the driver rants about development’s ravages.
    Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 10 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • This development forcibly ejects the mild-mannered mammal into both his parents’ den and the wild — literally — world of dating, where smelling suitors’ pee takes the place of an app profile.
    Alison Herman, Variety, 22 May 2026
  • At the same time, a salty liquid containing calcium chloride (a salt often used to de-ice roads) is pumped through the regenerator, which carries the heat away and ejects it to the surroundings on exit.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 5 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • Additional revenue streams with merchandise, sponsorships and ticket sales pile on.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 21 Aug. 2026
  • It’s also included in pay TV bases, and streams with a subscription to Disney+ or ESPN Unlimited.
    Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • The verifier performs some calculations on the outputs of the original AI model, and spits out a high certainty score that this model is GPT-OSS-120B, which is exactly correct.
    Billy Perrigo, Time, 17 Aug. 2026
  • That shift matters because judgment, not technical execution, is becoming what separates a good analyst from a tool that just spits out answers.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 28 July 2026
Verb
  • After learning about the attack, Joe’s entire team rushes to her home, where the FBI is leading the investigation.
    Samantha Stutsman, PEOPLE, 9 Aug. 2026
  • The salsa rushes the senses more thrillingly with its distinct, smoky-cherry notes from chile puya.
    Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 6 Aug. 2026

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“Spouts.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spouts. Accessed 24 Aug. 2026.

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