verb🔗ShareTo emit saliva or spit from the mouth in small, scattered portions, as in rapid speaking."He sputters when he gets nervous and tries to talk too fast. "bodyactionlanguagecommunicationsoundhumanphysiologyChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗ShareTo speak so rapidly as to emit saliva; to utter words hastily and indistinctly, with a spluttering sound, as in rage.""Enraged that his little brother broke his toy, the boy sputters insults, unable to form clear sentences." "languagesoundactioncommunicationpersonChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗ShareTo throw out anything, as little jets of steam, with a noise like that made by one sputtering."The old car sputters when you first start it on a cold morning, shooting out puffs of smoke. "soundactionmachinetechnologyChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗ShareTo cause surface atoms or electrons of a solid to be ejected by bombarding it with heavy atoms or ions."The scientist sputtered the metal sample with ionized gold atoms to study its surface properties. "physicsmaterialtechnologychemistryscienceChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗ShareTo coat the surface of an object by sputtering."The technician sputters a thin layer of gold onto the microchip to improve its conductivity. "materialtechnologyscienceprocessChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
