Synonyms of spurting

spurting

verb

present participle of spurt

1

as in pouring

to flow out in great quantities or with force

water spurted from the garden hose just as I was checking the nozzle

Synonyms & Similar Words

• pouring
• rushing
• streaming
• gushing
• squirting
• spewing
• spouting
• splashing
• rolling
• jetting
• swooshing
• running
• flushing
• washing
• surging
• flooding
• cascading
• issuing
• sloshing
• swelling
• drowning
• sluicing
• overflowing
• plashing
• engulfing
• inundating
• fountaining
• submerging
• swamping
• overwhelming
• deluging
• submersing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• dripping
• dropping
• trickling
• dribbling
• bleeding
• sprinkling
• leaking
• weeping
• straining
• oozing
• seeping
• percolating
• spattering
• exuding

2

as in erupting

to throw out or off (something from within) often violently

the pipe suddenly cracked and began spurting water

Synonyms & Similar Words

• erupting
• ejecting
• spitting
• expelling
• spewing
• pouring
• belching
• spouting
• emitting
• firing
• disgorging
• jetting
• releasing
• squirting
• streaming
• hurling
• gushing
• surging
• eructing
• emanating
• heaving
• exhaling
• issuing
• springing
• tossing
• flinging
• shooting
• venting
• launching
• discharging
• casting
• pitching

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• containing
• restraining
• shutting (in or up)
• bottling (up)

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of spurting

Once opened, check for foul odors, cloudiness, or spurting liquid when opening. — Katie Rosenhouse, Southern Living, 7 Dec. 2025

The peonies in my yard were blooming, spurting really. — Maria Zorn, Longreads, 24 Feb. 2026

Ultimately, all the statues end up in place, the fountain starts spurting red water like the Kool-Aid Man had been stabbed, and their prize pot grows to $106,000. — Tom Smyth, Vulture, 16 Jan. 2026

The first half of Tarantino’s epic action-movie mixtape Kill Bill is both ultra-stylish and ultra-violent, qualities that blend to create a kinetic blur of flashing blades and spurting arteries. — Katie Rife, Entertainment Weekly, 12 Jan. 2026

Visitors flit between the monumental swimming pool crowned with a glass roof, the thermal pools surrounded by regal lion heads spurting water and walls of Zsolnay porcelain tiles, and the pummeling outdoor wave pool that opens at the end of May every year. — Alia Akkam, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 Mar. 2024

Seismic activity also creates spurting geysers and toasty geothermal pools, particularly in magma-rich areas like the Snæfellsnes Peninsula and around Borgarfjörður fjord, both in the west. — Robin Catalano, Robb Report, 7 Aug. 2025