sputter
溅射,唾沫星子,喷溅,溅射物
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Definitions
- 1
- : to make explosive popping or sizzling sounds.
- : to emit particles, sparks, etc., forcibly or explosively, especially accompanied by sputtering sounds.
- : to eject particles of saliva, food, etc., from the mouth in a light spray, as when speaking angrily or excitedly.
- : to utter or spit out words or sounds explosively or incoherently, as when angry or flustered.
- 1
- : to emit forcibly and in small particles, as if by spitting: The fire sputtered cinders.
- : to eject in small particles explosively and involuntarily, as in excitement.
- : to utter explosively and incoherently.
- 1
- : the act or sound of sputtering.
- : explosive, incoherent utterance.
- : matter ejected in sputtering.
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Examples
They continue to sputter up and down, without fully recovering.
If the only policy tool you allow yourself to use is tax credits, your reform agenda will sputter into ineffectuality.
Here's one graf: The Woodward reporting has caused the White House spin machine to sputter at a crucial time.
And racial divisions may become worse if the economy continues to sputter.
The veranda, roofless and open to the bitter blue sky where the seasonal gu rains sputter, serves as a makeshift neonatal ward.
She glanced uneasily at Gwynne and fancied she could hear him slam the lid of his breeding upon a supercilious sputter.
She laughed so hard that she blew the ashes out of her pipe, and they showered down over my face, and made me wink and sputter.
Welcome worked the requisite levers, the machine began to sputter, and the boys gave it a shove.
With a wheezy sputter, it stopped dead, refusing to answer the frantic twists Perry gave the handle-bars.
Then all they'll do is buzz and sputter until the feedback is broken with the key.