Usually means: Eject particles by impacting energetically.
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  1. sputter: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. sputter: Merriam-Webster
  3. sputter: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. sputter: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. sputter: Collins English Dictionary
  6. sputter: Vocabulary.com
  7. Sputter, sputter: Wordnik
  8. sputter: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. sputter: Wiktionary
  10. sputter: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. sputter: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. sputter: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. sputter: Dictionary.com
  14. sputter: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. sputter: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Sputter: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Sputter: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. sputter: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. sputter: Rhymezone
  20. sputter: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  21. sputter: FreeDictionary.org
  22. sputter: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. sputter: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. Sputter: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  25. sputter: Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  Moist matter thrown out in small detached particles.
noun:  Confused and hasty speech.
verb:  (intransitive) To emit saliva or spit from the mouth in small, scattered portions, as in rapid speaking.
verb:  (ambitransitive) To speak so rapidly as to emit saliva; to utter words hastily and indistinctly, with a spluttering sound, as in rage.
verb:  (ambitransitive) To throw out anything, as little jets of steam, with a noise like that made by one sputtering.
verb:  (physics, intransitive) To cause surface atoms or electrons of a solid to be ejected by bombarding it with heavy atoms or ions.
verb:  (physics, transitive) To coat the surface of an object by sputtering.

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