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upspout

upspout verb: to spout upward.

Verb

upspout (third-person singular simple present upspouts, present participle upspouting, simple past and past participle upspouted)

  1. (poetic) To spout upward.
    • And swift from underneath upspout / Thick showers of hissing arrows that down-rain / Their rattling drops upon the walls, […]1868, Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton Earl of Lytton, New Poems: Chronicles and characters, page 313

Forms of upspout

third-person singular presentupspouts
present participleupspouting
past participleupspouted
pastupspouted

Origin of upspout

From up- + spout.

Questions about upspout

What does upspout mean?
Upspout means to spout upward.
What part of speech is upspout?
Upspout is a verb.
What is the past tense of upspout?
The past tense of upspout is upspouted.

Words near upspout in the dictionary

  1. upsplashed
  2. upsplashes
  3. upsplashing
  4. upspoke
  5. upspoken
  6. upspout
  7. upspouted
  8. upspouting
  9. upspouts
  10. upsprang
  11. upspread

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