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spouted

[ spou-tid ]

adjective

  1. fitted with a spout:

    a spouted pitcher.



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Other Words From

  • un·spouted adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of spouted1

First recorded in 1825–35; spout + -ed 3

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Example Sentences

More than 70 percent of the spouted water may flow away instead of freezing, says glaciologist Suryanarayanan Balasubramanian of the University of Fribourg in Switzerland.

Upstairs in the galleries, Jim Costanzo spouted lefty politics between tunes on his baritone bugle.

But in the same interview, he spouted the same old sexist line against female priests.

Such despicable nonsense is spouted for one reason: to dehumanize Palestinians.

As a TV gal who has reported and anchored and spouted opinions from news sets across the country, Google Hangout felt pretty real.

The night was exceedingly dark, and vast globes of flame spouted forth on both sides, borne away by a violent wind.

He kept well out to sea, because now and then he could see big rocks flying through the air as the volcano spouted.

Then the wind spouted in at a ventilating hole—of which there was one on each side of the hut.

Just as the old whaler had predicted, in less than five minutes the mother whale spouted, coming in the direction of the vessel.

In less than five minutes more she spouted again, just a little distance from the calf.

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