Definition of Sputter
Verb: sputter spú-tu(r)
- Make an explosive sound
"sputtering engines"
- Cause to undergo a process in which atoms are removed
"The solar wind protons must sputter away the surface atoms of the dust"
- Climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling
- clamber, scramble, shin, shinny [N. Amer], skin, struggle
- Utter with a spitting sound, as if in a rage
- splutter
- Spit up in an explosive manner
- splutter, spit out
- The noise of something spattering or sputtering explosively
"he heard a sputter of gunfire";
- spatter, spattering, splatter, splattering, splutter, sputtering
- An utterance (of words) with spitting sounds (as in rage)
- splutter
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