spurt

Meaning

Verb

1. To cause to gush out suddenly or violently in a stream or jet.
2. To rush from a confined place in a small stream or jet.

Noun

1. A brief gush, as of liquid spurting from an orifice or a cut/wound.
2. (slang) Ejaculation of semen.
3. (obsolete) A shoot; a bud.

Noun

1. A moment, a short period of time.
2. A sudden brief burst of, or increase in, speed, effort, activity, emotion or development.
3. The act of spurting, or something spurted

Synonyms

spout

gush

squirt

jet

spray

sprinkle

spirt

gush out

shoot

rush

dash

💨

burst

stream

spatter

flow

gush forth

blow out

splash

puff out

spurt out

burst into laughter

surge

forge

scatter

hasten

spit

discharge

erupt

ooze

current

push forward

radiate

rampage

run

rush out

send out

shoot forth

shower

🚿

spark

speed

spew

splatter

splutter

spot

spread

spring

sprint

spritz

sputter

strain

throw out

tizzy

twitter

well

well out

well up

bubble up

spray out

take flight

flow swiftly

spriknle

strenuous exertion

sparging

Zoom by 2

accelerate

break from

acceleration

blow

career

curry

🍛

dart

🎯

dither

effuse

eject

ejecting

ejection

emit

excitement

exude

fire

🔥

flood

flush

fluster

force

fountain

⛲

gallop

gust

inject

jetting

lunge

outbreak

outpour

petulance

pour out

push

Pronounced as (IPA)

/spɜːt/

Etymology

From earlier spirt, sprit (“to sprout”), from Middle English sprytten, from Old English spryttan, from Proto-West Germanic *spruttjan, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)per- (“to strew, sow, sprinkle”).