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Spirt

verb

Gush forth in a sudden stream or jet. Synonyms: gush, spout, spurt.

Move or act with a sudden increase in speed or energy. Synonyms: forge, spurt.

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... made an effect, combining with the village lights below. Then as night deepened, as if they were the moving principle of all the enchantment, the company's rolling-mills, like witches' kettles, began to spirt enormous gouts of flame, which seemed to cause their heavy roofs to flutter like the ...

— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XII. No. 31. October, 1873. • Various

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... with fireworks, I can warrant myself to you as about to imitate those gorgeous illusions by making a brief spirt and then dying out. And, first of all, as an invited visitor of the London Rowing Club on this most interesting occasion, I will beg, in the name of the other invited visitors present—always excepting the distinguished guests who are the cause of our meeting—to thank the president for the modesty ...

— Speeches: Literary and Social • Charles Dickens

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Words linked to "Spirt" : go, discharge, run, squirt, locomote, travel, whoosh, spray, gush, move, spritz, blow, pump, outpouring, jet, pour, spout, spurt, forge