spouts 1 of 2

plural of spout
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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
Sure enough, upon arriving, Phelps noticed spouts of water rising from the sea. Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 16 Oct. 2025 Since the reward switched between spouts, the mice had to adjust their strategy to get it right. Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 30 Sep. 2025 There are also some rubber and silicone bath spouts that can be washed in the dishwasher. Bestreviews, Mercury News, 26 Sep. 2025 Cleaning Bar Tools Beyond Glassware For other types of bar tools like shakers, jiggers, pour spouts, and metal utensils, rinse thoroughly after use and wash with a mild detergent. Katie Rosenhouse, Southern Living, 26 Sep. 2025
Verb
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
  • Clean gutters regularly so water flows away from your house and doesn’t back up into the soffits and under the roofline.
    Arricca Elin SanSone, Southern Living, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Leaves near decks, patios, walkways, or gutters should be removed to prevent staining and blockages.
    Diana Leyva, Nashville Tennessean, 21 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Moreover, doubts over untested Chinese weaponry have evaporated following their successful deployment in Pakistan's confrontation with India in early May, when Chinese J-10C and JF-17 fighter jets shot down up to six Indian jets.
    Charlie Campbell, Time, 23 Oct. 2025
  • That could become important as Ukrainian pilots have tested and trained on older Gripen jets and simulators, the communications chief for Ukraine’s air force said Wednesday in a report from RBC-Ukraine.
    Brad Lendon, CNN Money, 23 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Romanticizing old anecdotes through illustration and packing in details, the documentarian pours his soul into Boorman’s for a possession that’s warmly and memorably religious.
    Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Sunlight pours in through soaring windows in the primary suite, illuminating a wooden media center.
    Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 21 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • If the battery overheats, the system acts like a launcher; sensors trigger a mechanism that ejects it from the vehicle.
    Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 25 Sep. 2025
  • As a supernova explosion ejects the outer layers of these stars, their stellar cores collapse.
    Robert Lea, Space.com, 25 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Instead of red blood, blue liquid streams through their veins.
    Kate Siber, Outside, 21 Oct. 2025
  • This allows real-time decision-making with latency under 10 milliseconds, enabling the G2 to process multiple sensor streams locally and run large-scale AI models directly on the device.
    Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 20 Oct. 2025
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
  • The day of the invasion had been thick with heat, the kind that made the air above the sidewalk kebab spits ripple with diesel smoke.
    Vidushi Mishti Sharma, Rolling Stone, 24 Oct. 2025
  • But the ocean spits her back out.
    Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 10 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Ports like Los Angeles are clogged with pre-tariff inventory rushes, causing multi-week bottlenecks.
    Vitalii Savryha, Sourcing Journal, 21 Oct. 2025
  • The Broncos’ second-year quarterback became the first player in NFL history to log two touchdown passes and two touchdown rushes in a fourth quarter.
    Parker Gabriel, Denver Post, 20 Oct. 2025

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“Spouts.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spouts. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.

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