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Phrase(s): spurt something out
to eject something in a stream. • The octopus spurted its ink out as the scuba diver approached it. • It spurted out all its ink., Phrase(s): spurt out (of someone or something) [and] spurt (out) (from someone or something)
to squirt out of someone or something; to erupt in a stream out of someone or something. • Hot lava spurted out of the volcano. • Hot lava spurted out from the volcano. • The blood spurted out from Walter where he had been slashed. • Blood spurted from the wound. • The fountain had a carved fish with water spurting from its mouth.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs