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SPUTTERING

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The noise of something spattering or sputtering explosively

Example:

he heard a spatter of gunfire

Synonyms:

spatter; spattering; splatter; splattering; splutter; sputter; sputtering

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Hypernyms ("sputtering" is a kind of...):

noise (sound of any kind (especially unintelligible or dissonant sound))

Derivation:

sputter (make an explosive sound)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

-ing form of the verb sputter

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