spurt

About 0.87 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To cause to gush out suddenly or violently in a stream or jet.
2. verb To rush from a confined place in a small stream or jet.
3. noun A brief gush, as of liquid spurting from an orifice or a cut/wound.

   a spurt of water; a spurt of blood

4. noun Ejaculation of semen.
5. noun A shoot; a bud.
6. noun A moment, a short period of time.
7. noun A sudden brief burst of, or increase in, speed, effort, activity, emotion or development.

   The boss's visit prompted a brief spurt of activity.

8. noun The act of spurting, or something spurted

Similar words

squirt gush spirt spout forge jet flow outbreak impulse sprint

Often followed by

of in and out from is to at that

Word family

spurted spurting spurts