spurted

verb

past tense of spurt
1
as in poured
to flow out in great quantities or with force water spurted from the garden hose just as I was checking the nozzle

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2
as in erupted
to throw out or off (something from within) often violently the pipe suddenly cracked and began spurting water

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Recent Examples of spurted 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 Keep an eye out for the coton de tulear, which spurted from 92nd in 2024 to 79th last year. — Dallas Morning News, 18 Mar. 2026 By the time Journalism and jockey Umberto Rispoli began passing other horses and taking aim at Fierceness with the rally that had won him the Santa Anita Derby, Preakness and Haskell Stakes, the leader had spurted clear by 2-1/2 lengths turning into the homestretch. — Kevin Modesti, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Aug. 2025 The supporters’ handheld smoke bombs spurted plumes of royal blue, the apparatus and color foreign to the home stadium of the orange and black Giants. — Tamerra Griffin, New York Times, 24 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for spurted
  1. poured
  2. erupted
  3. rushed
  4. ejected
  5. spit
  6. expelled
  7. belched
  8. spewed
Verb
  • Gordon, the only sitting judge who spent multiple days on the bus, poured over documents and sequestered himself with a laptop and a cell phone video call in a back corner.
    — Sarah D. Wire, USA Today, 11 July 2026
  • The scale alone — several million visitors have poured through the country over the tournament’s five-week run — has made the World Cup both a massive sporting spectacle and a test of logistical and policy coordination on an unprecedented level.
    — Daniel Ross Goodman, The Washington Examiner, 11 July 2026
Definition of poured
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  • About 400 firefighters worked to contain the flames, which erupted just ahead of a July 14 national holiday and on the first major weekend for departures for the summer holiday season.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 13 July 2026
  • The Cape Verde supporters also erupted in the 62nd minute when their beloved 40-year-old goalkeeper Vozinha denied Messi at point-blank range.
    — Michelle Kaufman, Miami Herald, 13 July 2026
Definition of erupted
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  • Members of the community rushed to support the toddler’s family after his death, Atlanta News First reported at the time.
    — Adam England, PEOPLE, 16 July 2026
  • Water rushed in through the openings, and the ship foundered so quickly that most of the 500 men onboard were lost.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 15 July 2026
Definition of rushed
Verb
  • San Diego’s manager Craig Stammen and coach Ryan Goins were ejected three pitches into the game after arguing a check-swing call.
    — Liana Handler Follow, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2026
  • Balogun, a star striker who has scored three goals so far in this year’s tournament, received a red card and was ejected from last week’s US game against Bosnia and Herzegovina for a foul against a defender.
    — Yash Roy, Fortune, 5 July 2026
Definition of ejected
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  • That’s when a 17-year-old girl spit at an officer when she was asked to leave the area, authorities said.
    — WBFF STAFF, Baltimore Sun, 13 July 2026
  • Lowry, in the meantime, would embark on a two-decade career in a league that spits out frauds on the regular.
    — Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 8 July 2026
Definition of spit
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  • The day of the cyber attack, Yazbak said the Department of Administrative Services expelled the attacker from the state’s systems.
    — Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 9 July 2026
  • Our previous Representative in Congress, Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick had to resign hours before being expelled by her colleagues on both sides of the aisle for fraud.
    — Elijah Manley, Sun Sentinel, 9 July 2026
Definition of expelled
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  • For decades, Saarland’s foundries and furnaces belched black into the sky.
    — Jeff Chu, Travel + Leisure, 6 July 2026
  • The rare isotope is mostly locked away deep within our world’s innards, but vanishingly small quantities are belched out in volcanic eruptions and through natural gas pipelines.
    — Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 14 May 2026
Definition of belched
Verb
  • Its results spewed from a transactional firehose Tuesday morning.
    — Dan Woike, New York Times, 2 July 2026
  • While France made a strong effort to reverse course in recent years, the European nation has spewed a cumulative total of about 40 billion tonnes of CO2 emissions throughout its history.
    — Joe Wilkins, Futurism, 1 July 2026
Definition of spewed

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