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English

sputters

verb

Meaning

  1. To emit saliva or spit from the mouth in small, scattered portions, as in rapid speaking.
  2. To speak so rapidly as to emit saliva; to utter words hastily and indistinctly, with a spluttering sound, as in rage.
  3. To throw out anything, as little jets of steam, with a noise like that made by one sputtering.
  4. To cause surface atoms or electrons of a solid to be ejected by bombarding it with heavy atoms or ions.
  5. To coat the surface of an object by sputtering.

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data