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Word: sputter
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Meaning:
Noun:
- Moist matter thrown out in small detached particles; also, confused and hasty speech.
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Verb:
- physics intransitive To cause surface atoms or electrons of a solid to be ejected by bombarding it with heavy atoms or ions
- physics transitive To coat the surface of an object by sputtering
- To spit, or to emit saliva from the mouth in small, scattered portions, as in rapid speaking.
- To throw out anything, as little jets of steam, with a noise like that made by one sputtering.
- To utter words hastily and indistinctly; to speak so rapidly as to emit saliva.
- transitive To spit out hastily by quick, successive efforts, with a spluttering sound; to utter hastily and confusedly, without control over the organs of speech.
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