MEANING
Shoot or flow out in a brief, forceful burst.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- water spurts
- spurt from a pipe
On the page
Water spurted from the split hose.
Nearby words
Word forms
- Base
- spurt
- Past tense
- spurted
- Past participle
- spurted
- Present participle
- spurting
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- spurt
- Present continuous
- am/is/are spurting
- Present perfect
- have/has spurted
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been spurting
- Past
- spurted
- Past continuous
- was/were spurting
- Past perfect
- had spurted
- Past perfect continuous
- had been spurting
- Future
- will spurt
- Future continuous
- will be spurting
- Future perfect
- will have spurted
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been spurting
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: sensory / description. Forms: spurt; spurts; spurted; spurted; spurting Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: description. Commonness: moderately common. Third-person singular: spurts.
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