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- verb Present participle of
spurt .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective propelled violently in a usually narrow stream
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Examples
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Starbucks (SBUX) has had enough complaints about coffee spurting from the sip holes in its lids to do something about it.
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I walked around and looked and yes, there was a little leaping flame being fed by a jet of gas or something spurting from a pinhole in a hose.
May 2007 2007
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I walked around and looked and yes, there was a little leaping flame being fed by a jet of gas or something spurting from a pinhole in a hose.
That meme thing 2007
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It was ineffective, not because it wasn’t well edited — the students used YouTube clips, and so they couldn’t show the power of blood spurting from a severed arm or the impact of showing a gun in a child’s hand.
Archive 2009-05-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009
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I’m yet though to write about showring in a hot mineral spring spurting from a rusty funnel in the middle of wheat field … there has to be a story in that.
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A combination of my overabundant milk production "spurting" would not be an inaccurate description, and his being a bit tongue-tied.
No Shame 2007
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-- A few pieces of pipe-clay or pumice may be placed in the beaker to prevent the "spurting" of the chromic acid.
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Duty done in part, the smallest part, I readied myself for the spurting of customers through the restaurant doors.
Riding the tube to work Gill Hoffs 2011
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Many critics wrote that "Bonnie and Clyde" was a revolutionary mix of raucous comedy, blood spurting violence, and gun stroking sexuality.
'Bonnie and Clyde' director Arthur Penn dies T. Rees Shapiro 2010
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A few minutes later, with blood spurting from Mr. Estrada's wound, the referee stopped the match, making Indianapolis home to the Caribbean's newest champ.
Training for a Heavyweight Bout? Better Take a Geography Lesson Russell Adams 2011
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