spurt

spurt is a 5-letter English word with 7 senses as intransitive verb, transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To gush or issue suddenly or violently out in a stream, as liquor from a cask; to rush from a confined place in a small stream or jet; to spirt. 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 · 7 senses

Definitions

1. intransitive verb. To gush or issue suddenly or violently out in a stream, as liquor from a cask; to rush from a confined place in a small stream or jet; to spirt.
2. transitive verb. To throw out, as a liquid, in a stream or jet; to drive or force out with violence, as a liquid from a pipe or small orifice; as, to spurt water from the mouth.
3. noun. A sudden and energetic effort, as in an emergency; an increased exertion for a brief space.
4. intransitive verb. To make a sudden and violent exertion, as in an emergency.
5. noun. the occurrence of a sudden discharge (as of liquid)

   Synonyms: jet, spirt, squirt

6. verb. move or act with a sudden increase in speed or energy

   Synonyms: forge, spirt

7. verb. gush forth in a sudden stream or jet

   "water gushed forth"

   Synonyms: gush, spirt, spout

Synonyms

jet, spirt, squirt, forge, gush, spout

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in spurt:

turps

Common word forms

spurts, spurted, spurter, spurting

Words from these letters

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