FOUNTAINED Synonyms: 43 Similar and Opposite Words

fountained

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past tense of fountain

as in spurted

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Someone spurted hair spray on Tate McRae’s long locks.

— Jane Bua, New Yorker, 14 May 2026
Oil prices spurted higher early this week on worries that the war will keep the Strait of Hormuz closed for a long time.

— Stan Choe, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2026

Definition of spurted

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Kearns gushed in a 2015 interview that his dream creative collaboration would be directing a project written by his daughter that explored race.

— Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 8 Oct. 2026
When the topic postgame shifted to the possibility of that being his last time taking the field with Happ, Swanson gushed about his impact, both on himself and the Cubs.

— Meghan Montemurro, Chicago Tribune, 1 Oct. 2026

Definition of gushed

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That underdog context feeds into the implicit soft power competition between the Toho Godzilla releases and the American franchise from Legendary, which has spouted a whole Monsterverse involving King Kong and an accompanying TV show.

— Alison Willmore, Vulture, 30 Sep. 2026
That’s the prayerful explanation for the nonsense that spouted this week from the leaders of a football conference that hopes to grow up and be the Big Ten someday.

— Joe Rexrode, New York Times, 29 May 2026

Definition of spouted

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In the Chiefs’ 30-27 win over the Raiders, Walker rushed for 177 yards on 22 carries with two touchdowns and a pulsating 76-yard dash.

— Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 6 Oct. 2026
Last April, residents of the Vendome Place Condominium in Miami Beach were inside the elevator with the doors closed when floodwaters rushed in, NBC6 reported.

— Alex Harris, Miami Herald, 6 Oct. 2026

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Luhring Augustine moved into the 3,500-square-foot space in September 2020, as galleries flooded the neighborhood, lured by the low rents spawned by the Covid-19 crisis.

— News Desk, Artforum, 2 Oct. 2026
Clearly he hasn’t been flooded with offers since that accolade, so his agent has set him up with Lady Isabella, who claims to have a Netflix commission for a bio-doc about her life.

— Guy Lodge, Variety, 2 Oct. 2026

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The collision on the narrow two-lane highway ignited a fire that engulfed the 17-passenger mid-sized commercial shuttle bus, which had a 50-year-old driver and five passengers onboard, according to the National Transportation Safety Board.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 8 Oct. 2026
At that point, the film pivots to a more surreal register, presenting bright, clear skies that are slowly, eerily engulfed in darkness.

— Lé Baltar, IndieWire, 8 Oct. 2026

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