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spout
spout is a 5-letter English word with 12 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To throw out forcibly and abudantly, as liquids through an office or a pipe; to eject in a jet; as, an elephant spouts water from his trunk. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 9 · 12 senses
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- 1transitive verb
To throw out forcibly and abudantly, as liquids through an office or a pipe; to eject in a jet; as, an elephant spouts water from his trunk.
- 2transitive verb
To utter magniloquently; to recite in an oratorical or pompous manner.
- 3transitive verb
To pawn; to pledge; as, spout a watch.
- 4intransitive verb
To issue with with violence, or in a jet, as a liquid through a narrow orifice, or from a spout; as, water spouts from a hole; blood spouts from an artery.
- 5intransitive verb
To eject water or liquid in a jet.
- 6intransitive verb
To utter a speech, especially in a pompous manner.
- 7transitive verb
That through which anything spouts; a discharging lip, pipe, or orifice; a tube, pipe, or conductor of any kind through which a liquid is poured, or by which it is conveyed in a stream from one place to another; as, the spout of a teapot; a spout for conducting water from the roof of a building.
- 8transitive verb
A trough for conducting grain, flour, etc., into a receptacle.
- 9transitive verb
A discharge or jet of water or other liquid, esp. when rising in a column; also, a waterspout.
- 10noun
an opening that allows the passage of liquids or grain
- 11verb
talk in a noisy, excited, or declamatory manner
- 12verb
gush forth in a sudden stream or jet
"water gushed forth"
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