[
US
/ˈspətɝ/
]
NOUN
- an utterance (of words) with spitting sounds (as in rage)
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the noise of something spattering or sputtering explosively
he heard a spatter of gunfire
VERB
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make an explosive sound
sputtering engines - utter with a spitting sound, as if in a rage
- climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling
- spit up in an explosive manner
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cause to undergo a process in which atoms are removed
The solar wind protons must sputter away the surface atoms of the dust
How To Use sputter In A Sentence
- Smoking and sputtering, the glider zoomed away, with the Green Goblin desperately trying to pull the webbing from his eyes. SPIDER-MAN®: THE ADVENTURES OF SPIDER-MAN
- The other day in the midst of Port-au-Prince, the great degraded capital city that is my home, I saw a car, an old battered car, a jalopy, falter and sputter and come to a slow halt.
- Putting a world-class tax dodger at the controls of our sputtering economy has all the makings of a world-class train wreck.
- The shower head began to spit and sputter out hot water.
- The bubble burst late last year as the economy started sputtering, and now about 10 per cent of credit card debt is more than one month overdue in Asia's fourth-largest economy.
- The Fed has already cut rates seven times this year, by a total of three full percentage points, to try to reignite sputtering economic growth.
- Sputtering offense again plagued the Demon Deacons, as it did when they were beaten by Maryland last week in the quarterfinals of the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament. USATODAY.com
- Somehow I had ended up on the floor, sputtering and crying, the whole bodice of my dress no longer attached to the sleeves revealing the bodice of my under garments.
- The sputtering of the economy over the past 18 months now has been overshadowed by terror and tragedy.
- It was just sputtering, so I threw some more gasoline on it.