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sprant

sprant is the simple past of sprint.

Meaning of sprint

Verb

sprint (third-person singular simple present sprints, present participle sprinting, simple past sprinted or (nonstandard, humorous) sprant, past participle sprinted or (nonstandard, humorous) sprant or (nonstandard, humorous) sprunt)

  1. (ambitransitive) To run, cycle, etc. at top speed for a short period.
    • "So I broke away early this mornin', gave my guard a kick in the tummy that laid him out, and sprinted for the camp.1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC

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Origin of sprant

By analogy with strong verb forms such as sang (simple past of sing).

Questions about sprant

What is sprant the simple past of?
Sprant is the simple past of sprint.

Words near sprant in the dictionary

  1. Sprangs
  2. sprankle
  3. sprankled
  4. sprankles
  5. sprankling
  6. sprant
  7. sprat
  8. Spratley
  9. Spratleys
  10. Spratlies
  11. spratlike

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sprant (page history and authors); sprint (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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