SPURTED Synonyms: 77 Similar and Opposite Words

spurted

verb

past tense of spurt

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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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

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By late July, four of seven new towers were already standing; the machinery for the highway-side terminal was complete; the village terminal foundations were poured; and the new cabins had arrived.

— David Caraccio Updated July 31, Sacbee.com, 31 July 2026
In May 2021, Ceuta experienced a similar, sudden influx when more than 8,000 migrants poured in over just two days.

— Conor Murray, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026

Definition of poured

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Earlier Monday, some residents returned to find their homes leveled by wildfires that erupted across a parched landscape over the weekend, covering yards in charred debris.

— ABC News, ABC News, 4 Aug. 2026
Sleep was beginning to finally visit the insomniacs and drunkards of T—in central Manila when a commotion louder than the usual domestic squabbles erupted from the room above Mang Calixto’s bakery.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 3 Aug. 2026

Definition of erupted

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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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Unfortunately for Miami, Suarez, who has been on fire, is suspended for the next six Leagues Cups games for spitting at a Seattle Sounders staff member after the 2025 Final last August.

— Michelle Kaufman, Miami Herald, 2 Aug. 2026
Greek culinary historian Mariana Kavroulaki pointed out that rather than making stews, characters in The Odyssey were mostly spit-roasting their proteins, though that’s something of an anachronism in the text.

— Sam Stone, Bon Appetit Magazine, 31 July 2026

Definition of spit

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After coming into power, the Malian military junta expelled French forces from the country in 2022, citing protection of national sovereignty and a worsening security crisis.

— ABC News, ABC News, 31 July 2026
It was obtained by James Dale, who was expelled from the Boy Scouts in the early 1990s for being gay and later sued over discrimination.

— Jamie Stengle, Fortune, 31 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

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