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an utterance (of words) with spitting sounds (as in rage) cause to undergo a process in which atoms are removed; "The solar wind protons must sputter away the surface atoms of the dust" utter with a spitting sound, as if in a rage make an explosive sound; "sputtering engines" spit up in an explosive manner the noise of something spattering or sputtering explosively; "he heard a spatter of gunfire" climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling |
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