SPOUTS Synonyms: 118 Similar and Opposite Words

spouts 1 of 2

noun

plural of spout

as in gutters

a pipe or channel for carrying off water from a roof during the winter, runoff from the spout tends to freeze over and form a dangerous patch of ice on the walkway

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as in jets

a usually forceful stream of fluid discharged from a narrow opening kids cooling off under the spout of water from an opened fire hydrant

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spouts

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verb

present tense third-person singular of spout

as in pours

to flow out in great quantities or with force water spouting from the hose

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as in huffs

to talk loudly and wildly a self-important loudmouth who is always spouting about the mess that politicians have made of everything

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as in ejects

to violently throw out or off (something from within) the drain suddenly spouted water and debris

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Recent Examples of spouts

Noun

From flash flooding to water spouts turned tornadoes, August's weather has been particularly out-of-the-ordinary. — Amethyst Martinez, USA Today, 24 Aug. 2026 Some of the pouring spouts are also located on the side of the lid instead of on top. — Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 3 Aug. 2026 Splash about in North America’s largest wave pool as a shipwrecked vessel spouts water overhead at Disney’s Typhoon Lagoon. — Carly Caramanna, Travel + Leisure, 31 July 2026 And teach kids not to drink from the pool or treat splash-pad spouts like drinking fountains. — Angela Haupt, Time, 20 July 2026 Cascading waterfall spouts that line the middle of the pool, meantime, are specially angled to target stress points on your body. — Tim Chan, HollywoodReporter, 12 July 2026 Some of the water spouts reached between 20 feet and 30 feet, geologists said. — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 23 June 2026 Glorious sculptures entangled in water spouts were erected across the city over the next century. — Sophie Lindberg, Kansas City Star, 11 June 2026 Lids and spouts can quickly become traps for mold, bacteria, and grime, especially in hard-to-reach crevices. — Mariana Best, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 May 2026

Verb

Trish coined the nickname, which is funny because Cannon never spouts off. — E. Tammy Kim, New Yorker, 17 Dec. 2025 Though the dream stalker is genuinely terrifying in the 1984 original, his cultural ubiquity grew as the character became less of a boogeyman than a kind of homicidal jester, one who spouts groan-worthy one-liners before spilling your guts. — Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 6 Oct. 2025

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Noun

This includes checking around your property for leaks affecting your gutters, pools, buckets, and other areas where water can collect.

— Molly Burford, Southern Living, 1 Sep. 2026
So spots like gutters, soffits, and even exhaust vents are appealing to them.

— Alexandra Kelly, Martha Stewart, 1 Sep. 2026

Definition of gutters

Verb

When summer hits and strong afternoon light pours through west- and south-facing glass, all that natural light turns into heat and your electric bill climbs with it.

— Ryan Brennan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 Sep. 2026
Set on a picturesque Japanese island, the series follows Karin Shirahama, a strawberry farmer who pours everything into her land, and Lee Yubin, a city dweller whose fortunes have taken a sharp turn for the worse.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 2 Sep. 2026

Definition of pours

Verb

And his ultimate war is with Bob, a tech CEO who rants about his haters and has gotten rich off rebranded snake oil and whose obvious corruption has been obscured by his self-mythologizing.

— Alison Willmore, Vulture, 29 Aug. 2025
One grumbles when the driver rants about development’s ravages.

— Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 10 Aug. 2025

Definition of rants

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This development forcibly ejects the mild-mannered mammal into both his parents’ den and the wild — literally — world of dating, where smelling suitors’ pee takes the place of an app profile.

— Alison Herman, Variety, 22 May 2026
At the same time, a salty liquid containing calcium chloride (a salt often used to de-ice roads) is pumped through the regenerator, which carries the heat away and ejects it to the surroundings on exit.

— IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 5 Feb. 2026

Definition of ejects

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As starlight streams through the telescope, those actuators subtly reshape the mirrors in real time, correcting for imperfections in the telescope's optics smaller than the width of a strand of DNA.

— Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 26 Aug. 2026
The World Cup next year will stream on Netflix, while TNT Sports has the rights to upcoming USWNT matches and Paramount+ streams most Women’s Super League contests.

— Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 26 Aug. 2026

Definition of streams

Verb

The verifier performs some calculations on the outputs of the original AI model, and spits out a high certainty score that this model is GPT-OSS-120B, which is exactly correct.

— Billy Perrigo, Time, 17 Aug. 2026
That shift matters because judgment, not technical execution, is becoming what separates a good analyst from a tool that just spits out answers.

— Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 28 July 2026

Definition of spits

Verb

Eddie George rushes for 216 yards, the second best opening-day NFL performance, in helping Tennessee past Oakland 24-21 in overtime.

— Assistant Sports Editor, Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2026
In the commercial, Good Good co-founder Garrett Clark rushes over to his golf bag and pushes over golfer Alexis Miestowski to keep her from grabbing the Quantum Driver.

— Andrew Greif, NBC news, 27 Aug. 2026