spurted

Jetted out suddenly

Spurted is the past tense of spurt, meaning to gush or shoot out suddenly in a stream: Blood spurted from the wound, Water spurted from the broken pipe.

It can also describe sudden bursts of activity or speed: She spurted ahead in the final stretch of the race.

liquid

gushed

Flowed or spoke excessively

streamed · splashed · burst · ejected · pumped · shot · spouted · surged · spritzed · splattered

blood

hemorrhaged

Lost blood rapidly

arterial · wound · injury · severed · cut · sliced · trauma · crimson · pooled · soaked

acceleration

surged

Increased suddenly and forcefully

  • burstBreak apart suddenly
  • dashedMoved with sudden speed
  • boltedFastened or fled suddenly

sprinted · rushed · accelerated · zoomed · darted · shot · lunged · charged · bounded · leaped

intermittent

sputtered

Spoke in fragments

pulsed · irregular · fitful · erratic · uneven · choppy · bursting · stop-start · inconsistent · sporadic

Opposites
flow intensity/manner

spurtedtrickled

Flowed in drops

dribbled · dripped · seeped · oozed · leaked

temporal pattern

spurtedstreamed

Flowed steadily forth

coursed · flowed · ran

direction of flow

spurtedabsorbed

Took in fully

retained · held · stanched

Phrases
Family

spurt, spurts, spurting

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