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SPOUTING
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Propelled violently in a usually narrow stream
Synonyms:
jetting; spouting; spurting; squirting
Classified under:
Similar:
running ((of fluids) moving or issuing in a stream)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb spout
Context examples:
Again I turned my face to leeward, and again I saw the jutting promontory, black and high and naked, the raging surf that broke about its base and beat its front high up with spouting fountains, the black and forbidden coast-line running toward the south-east and fringed with a tremendous scarf of white.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
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