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sputter

English

  1. 🔊 an utterance (of words) with spitting sounds (as in rage)
  2. 🔊 the noise of something spattering or sputtering explosively
    “he heard a spatter of gunfire”
  3. 🔊 cause to undergo a process in which atoms are removed
    “The solar wind protons must sputter away the surface atoms of the dust”
  4. 🔊 utter with a spitting sound, as if in a rage
  5. 🔊 make an explosive sound
    “sputtering engines”
  6. 🔊 spit up in an explosive manner
  7. 🔊 climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling

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