quirting

The word “quirting” has 2 syllables: quirt-ing

It's pronounced as /ˈkwɝtɪŋ/


What is synonym and antonym for quirting?

In the thesaurus, “quirting” has 91 synonyms.

Here are synonyms for quirting along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for quirting

  • banging
  • bashing
  • basting
  • battering
  • batting
  • beating
  • belaboring
  • belting
  • birching
  • blackjacking
  • bludgeoning
  • bopping
  • boxing
  • buffeting
  • bunging
  • busting
  • caning
  • clapping
  • clipping
  • clobbering
  • clouting
  • clubbing
  • cowhiding
  • cracking
  • cudgeling
  • cudgelling
  • cuffing
  • cutting
  • drubbing
  • fibbing
  • flagellating
  • flailing
  • flicking
  • flogging
  • fustigating
  • hammering
  • hiding
  • hitting
  • horsewhipping
  • knocking
  • knouting
  • lacing
  • lambasting
  • lamming
  • lashing
  • lathering
  • leathering
  • licking
  • mangling
  • mauling
  • paddling
  • pasting
  • pelting
  • pistol-whipping
  • pommeling
  • pommelling
  • pounding
  • pummeling
  • pummelling
  • punching
  • rawhiding
  • roughing
  • scourging
  • slapping
  • slashing
  • slating
  • slogging
  • slugging
  • smacking
  • smiting
  • socking
  • spanking
  • strapping
  • swatting
  • swiping
  • switching
  • tanning
  • thrashing
  • threshing
  • thumping
  • thwacking
  • touching up
  • tromping
  • walloping
  • whacking
  • whaling
  • whapping
  • whipping
  • whopping
  • whupping
  • working over

Meanings of quirting

  • verb
    1. To strike with a quirt.

Example Sentences

  • The chef demonstrated the proper technique for quirting lemon juice onto the freshly grilled fish.
  • As the pressure increased, water began quirting from the small crack in the pipe.
  • The children giggled as they played with water guns, quirting each other in a playful water fight.
  • She accidentally stepped on a ripe tomato, causing its seeds and pulp to go quirting everywhere.
  • The clown delighted the audience by quirting water from a flower pinned to his lapel.

On this page you'll find 91 synonyms or another words to quirting, such as: banging, bashing, basting, battering, batting, beating, belaboring.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

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dashing

  • absurd
  • accelerating
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  • afflicting
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  • balmy
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  • bathing
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  • bespattering
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  • blowing
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  • casting
  • catapulting
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  • debonair
  • dejecting
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  • dousing
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  • driving
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  • dumb
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  • elegant
  • emboldened
  • enterprising
  • exclusive
  • exercising
  • exuberant
  • fashionable
  • fast-forwarding
  • fearless
  • firing
  • flinging
  • flipping
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  • flying
  • foolhardy
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  • gadarene
  • gallant
  • galloping
  • gay
  • getting a move on
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  • greathearted
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  • gunning
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  • half-witted
  • hardy
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  • haring
  • hastening
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  • headlong
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  • heroic
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  • hieing
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  • hying
  • idiotic
  • idiotical
  • impelling
  • impetuous
  • impregnating
  • imprudent
  • impulsive
  • incautious
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  • jaunty
  • jetting
  • jogging
  • jumping
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  • lapping
  • launching
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  • lionhearted
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  • lobbing
  • lofting
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  • lunatic
  • mad
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  • making tracks
  • modish
  • moronic
  • motoring
  • nerved
  • nervy
  • nipping
  • nutty
  • oppressing
  • outpacing
  • outrunning
  • outstripping
  • overbold
  • overconfident
  • overtaking
  • passing
  • pattering
  • pegging
  • pelting
  • perturbing
  • pitching
  • plashing
  • plucky
  • precipitate
  • precipitating
  • projecting
  • propelling
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  • ramming
  • rash
  • reckless
  • rifling
  • ripping
  • rocketing
  • rolling
  • rousing
  • running
  • rushing
  • rustling
  • saddening
  • saturating
  • scampering
  • scatterbrained
  • scooting
  • scudding
  • scuffling
  • scurrying
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  • shagging
  • shaking a leg
  • shooting
  • showy
  • silly
  • skipping
  • slinging
  • slopping
  • sloshing
  • slushing
  • smart
  • soaking
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  • sousing
  • spattering
  • speeding
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  • sporty
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  • springing
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  • sprinting
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  • squirting
  • stalwart
  • stampeding
  • steeping
  • stepping
  • stepping on it
  • stepping out
  • stout
  • stouthearted
  • streaking
  • stupid
  • stylish
  • swank
  • swashbuckling
  • swashing
  • swish
  • tearing
  • thoughtless
  • throwing
  • thrusting
  • tormenting
  • torturing
  • tossing
  • traveling
  • travelling
  • tripping
  • trotting
  • troubling
  • unafraid
  • undaunted
  • undoing
  • unhinging
  • unnecessary
  • unnerving
  • unreasonable
  • unsettling
  • upsetting
  • valiant
  • valorous
  • venturesome
  • venturous
  • vivacious
  • wacky
  • washing
  • watering
  • weighing down
  • whacky
  • whirling
  • whisking
  • whizzing
  • wild
  • witless
  • worrying
  • zipping
  • zooming

eddying

  • bubbling
  • dribbling
  • dripping
  • dropping
  • guggling
  • gurgling
  • gushing
  • jetting
  • lapping
  • plashing
  • purling
  • rippling
  • rushing
  • spewing
  • splashing
  • spouting
  • spurting
  • squirting
  • swashing
  • swirling
  • swishing
  • swooshing
  • trickling
  • washing
  • whishing

ejecting

  • axing
  • banishing
  • belching
  • bouncing
  • canning
  • cashiering
  • casting
  • casting out
  • chasing
  • defenestrating
  • deforcing
  • deporting
  • discharging
  • disgorging
  • dismissing
  • displacing
  • dispossessing
  • emanating
  • emitting
  • eructing
  • erupting
  • evicting
  • exhaling
  • exiling
  • expatriating
  • expelling
  • extruding
  • firing
  • flinging
  • giving one the gate
  • gushing
  • heaving
  • hurling
  • issuing
  • jetting
  • kicking out
  • launching
  • mustering out
  • ostracizing
  • ousting
  • outing
  • pink-slipping
  • pitching
  • pouring
  • reading out
  • releasing
  • removing
  • retiring
  • routing
  • running off
  • sacking
  • sending packing
  • shooting
  • shutting out
  • spewing
  • spitting
  • spouting
  • springing
  • spurting
  • squirting
  • streaming
  • surging
  • terminating
  • throwing out
  • tossing
  • turning out
  • venting

jetting

  • accelerating
  • arrowing
  • barreling
  • barrelling
  • beating it
  • beelining
  • beetling
  • belching
  • belting
  • blasting
  • blazing
  • blowing
  • bolting
  • bombing
  • bowling
  • breezing
  • bundling
  • bustling
  • buzzing
  • cannonballing
  • careening
  • careering
  • cascading
  • casting
  • catching up
  • chasing
  • coursing
  • darting
  • dashing
  • deluging
  • discharging
  • disgorging
  • driving
  • drowning
  • ejecting
  • emanating
  • emitting
  • engulfing
  • eructing
  • erupting
  • exhaling
  • expelling
  • fast-forwarding
  • firing
  • flinging
  • flitting
  • flooding
  • flushing
  • flying
  • fountaining
  • galloping
  • getting a move on
  • gushing
  • haring
  • hastening
  • heaving
  • hieing
  • highballing
  • humping
  • hurling
  • hurrying
  • hurtling
  • hustling
  • hying
  • inundating
  • issuing
  • jogging
  • jumping
  • launching
  • making tracks
  • motoring
  • nipping
  • outpacing
  • outrunning
  • outstripping
  • overflowing
  • overtaking
  • overwhelming
  • pelting
  • pitching
  • plashing
  • pouring
  • quickening
  • racing
  • ramming
  • releasing
  • ripping
  • rocketing
  • rolling
  • running
  • rushing
  • rustling
  • scampering
  • scooting
  • scudding
  • scuffling
  • scurrying
  • scuttling
  • shaking a leg
  • shooting
  • sloshing
  • sluicing
  • speeding
  • spewing
  • spitting
  • splashing
  • spouting
  • springing
  • sprinting
  • spurting
  • squirting
  • stampeding
  • stepping
  • stepping on it
  • stepping out
  • streaking
  • streaming
  • submerging
  • submersing
  • surging
  • swamping
  • swelling
  • swooshing
  • tearing
  • tossing
  • traveling
  • travelling
  • trotting
  • venting
  • washing
  • whirling
  • whisking
  • whizzing
  • zipping
  • zooming

lapping

  • babbling
  • bathing
  • blanketing
  • bosoming
  • bowering
  • bubbling
  • camouflaging
  • circling
  • circumfusing
  • cloaking
  • cocooning
  • curtaining
  • disguising
  • draping
  • dribbling
  • dripping
  • dropping
  • ebb and flow
  • eddy
  • eddying
  • embedding
  • embosoming
  • embowering
  • embracing
  • encasing
  • encircling
  • enclosing
  • encompassing
  • enfolding
  • enlacing
  • enshrouding
  • enswathing
  • enveloping
  • enwinding
  • enwrapping
  • flow
  • guggling
  • gurgling
  • gush
  • gushing
  • heave
  • imbedding
  • imbrication
  • inclosing
  • investing
  • involving
  • jetting
  • laving
  • lipping
  • mantling
  • masking
  • muffling
  • murmur
  • overlap
  • overlapping
  • overlaying
  • overlying
  • overspreading
  • plashing
  • purling
  • rippling
  • roll
  • rush
  • rushing
  • shingling
  • shrouding
  • sloshing
  • spewing
  • splashing
  • spouting
  • spurt
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  • surge
  • surging
  • swaddling
  • swashing
  • swathing
  • sweep
  • swell
  • swirl
  • swirling
  • swishing
  • swooshing
  • trickling
  • undulation
  • veiling
  • washing
  • whishing
  • wrapping

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