Synonyms of the word sputter


SPUTTERALTER - CHANGE - CLAMBER - CLIMB - EMIT - EXPECTORATE - MODIFY - NOISE - POP - SCRAMBLE - SHIN - SHINNY - SKIN - SPATTER - SPATTERING - SPLATTER - SPLATTERING - SPLUTTER - SPUTTERING - STRUGGLE - UTTER - UTTERANCE - VOCALIZATION

sputter

  • n. Moist matter thrown out in small detached particles; also, confused and hasty speech.
  • v. To spit, or to emit saliva from the mouth in small, scattered portions, as in rapid speaking.
  • v. To utter words hastily and indistinctly; to speak so rapidly as to emit saliva.
  • v. To throw out anything, as little jets of steam, with a noise like that made by one sputtering.
  • v. (transitive) To spit out hastily by quick, successive efforts, with a spluttering sound; to utter hastily…
  • v. (physics, intransitive) To cause surface atoms or electrons of a solid to be ejected by bombarding it…
  • v. (physics, transitive) To coat the surface of an object by sputtering.

alter

  • v. (transitive) To change the form or structure of.
  • v. (intransitive) To become different.
  • v. (transitive) To tailor clothes to make them fit.
  • v. (transitive) To castrate, neuter or spay (a dog or other animal).
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To agitate; to affect mentally.

change

  • v. (intransitive) To become something different.
  • v. (transitive, ergative) To make something into something different.
  • v. (transitive) To replace.
  • v. (intransitive) To replace one's clothing.
  • v. (intransitive) To transfer to another vehicle (train, bus, etc.).
  • v. (archaic) To exchange.
  • v. (transitive) To change hand while riding (a horse).
  • n. (countable) The process of becoming different.
  • n. (uncountable) Small denominations of money given in exchange for a larger denomination.
  • n. (countable) A replacement, e.g. a change of clothes.
  • n. (uncountable) Money given back when a customer hands over more than the exact price of an item.
  • n. (uncountable) Coins (as opposed to paper money).
  • n. (countable) A transfer between vehicles.
  • n. (baseball) A change-up pitch.
  • n. (campanology) Any order in which a number of bells are struck, other than that of the diatonic scale.
  • n. (dated) A place where merchants and others meet to transact business; an exchange.
  • n. (Scotland, dated) A public house; an alehouse.

clamber

  • v. To climb with some difficulty, or in a haphazard fashion.
  • n. The act of clambering; a difficult or haphazard climb.

climb

  • v. (intransitive) To ascend; rise; to go up.
  • v. (transitive) To mount; to move upwards on.
  • v. (transitive) To scale; to get to the top of something.
  • v. (transitive) To move (especially up and down something) by gripping with the hands and using the feet.
  • v. (intransitive) to practise the sport of climbing.
  • v. (intransitive) to jump high.
  • v. To move to a higher position on the social ladder.
  • v. (botany) Of plants, to grow upwards by clinging to something.
  • n. An act of climbing.
  • n. The act of getting to somewhere more elevated.
  • n. An upwards struggle.

emit

  • v. (transitive) To send out or give off.

expectorate

  • v. to cough up fluid from the lungs.
  • v. to spit.

modify

  • v. (transitive) To make partial changes to.
  • v. (intransitive) To be or become modified.

noise

  • n. Various sounds, usually unwanted or unpleasant.
  • n. Sound or signal generated by random fluctuations.
  • n. (technology) Unwanted part of a signal. (Signal to noise ratio).
  • n. (genetics) The measured level of variation in gene expression among cells, regardless of source, within…
  • n. Rumour or complaint.
  • n. (obsolete) Music, in general; a concert; also, a company of musicians; a band.
  • n. (music) A genre of rock music that uses static and other non-musical sounds, also influenced by art rock.
  • v. (intransitive) To make a noise; to sound.
  • v. (transitive) To spread news of; to spread as rumor or gossip.

pop

  • n. (countable) A loud, sharp sound as of a cork coming out of a bottle.
  • n. (uncountable, regional, Midwestern US, Canada, dated British) An effervescent or fizzy drink, most frequently…
  • n. (countable, regional, Midwestern US, Canada) A bottle, can, or serving of effervescent or fizzy drink,…
  • n. Shortened from pop shot: a quick, possibly unaimed, shot with a firearm. Possibly confusion, by assonance,…
  • n. (colloquial, in the phrase "a pop") A portion, a quantity dispensed.
  • n. Something that stands out or is distinctive, especially to the senses.
  • n. (computing) The removal of a data item from the top of a stack.
  • n. A bird, the European redwing.
  • n. (physics) The sixth derivative of the position vector with respect to time (after velocity, acceleration,…
  • v. (intransitive) To make a pop, or sharp, quick sound.
  • v. (ergative) To burst (something) with a popping sound.
  • v. (intransitive, with in, out, upon, etc.) To enter, or issue forth, with a quick, sudden movement; to move…
  • v. (transitive, Britain) To place (something) (somewhere); to move or position (something) with a short movement.
  • v. (intransitive, Britain, Canada, often with over, round, along, etc.) To make a short trip or visit.
  • v. (intransitive) To stand out; to be distinctive to the senses.
  • v. (transitive) To hit (something or someone).
  • v. (transitive, slang) To shoot (usually somebody) with a firearm.
  • v. (intransitive, vulgar) To ejaculate.
  • v. (transitive, computing) To remove (a data item) from the top of a stack.
  • v. (transitive, computing) To remove a data item from the top of (a stack).
  • v. (transitive, slang) To pawn (something) (to raise money).
  • v. (transitive, slang) To swallow (a tablet of a drug).
  • v. (transitive, informal) To perform (a move or stunt) while riding a board or vehicle.
  • v. (intransitive, of the ears) To undergo equalization of pressure when the Eustachian tubes open.
  • interj. Used to represent a loud, sharp sound, as of a cork coming out of a bottle.
  • n. (colloquial) Affectionate form of father.
  • adj. (used attributively in set phrases) Popular.
  • n. Pop music.
  • n. (Russian Orthodoxy, uncommon) A Russian Orthodox priest; a parson.

scramble

  • interj. (Britain) shouted when something desirable is thrown into a group of people who individually want that…
  • v. (intransitive) To move hurriedly to a location, especially by using all limbs against a surface.
  • v. (intransitive) To proceed to a location or an objective in a disorderly manner.
  • v. (transitive, of food ingredients, usually including egg) To thoroughly combine and cook as a loose mass.
  • v. (transitive) To process (telecommunication signals) to make them unintelligible to an unauthorized listener.
  • v. (transitive, military) To quickly deploy (vehicles, usually aircraft) to a destination in response to…
  • v. (intransitive, sports) To partake in motocross.
  • v. (intransitive) To ascend rocky terrain as a leisure activity.
  • v. (transitive) To gather or collect by scrambling.
  • v. To struggle eagerly with others for something thrown upon the ground; to go down upon all fours to seize…
  • n. A rush or hurry.
  • n. (military) An emergency defensive air force mission to intercept attacking enemy aircraft.
  • n. A motocross race.
  • n. Any frantic period of activity.

shin

  • n. The front part of the leg below the knee; the front edge of the shin bone.
  • n. A fishplate for a railway.
  • v. (Britain, as "shin up") To climb a mast, tree, rope, or the like, by embracing it alternately with the…
  • v. To strike with the shin.
  • v. (US, slang) To run about borrowing money hastily and temporarily, as when trying to make a payment.
  • n. The twenty-first letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic…

shinny

  • v. To climb in an awkward manner.
  • n. (Canada) An informal game of pickup hockey played with minimal equipment: skates, sticks and a puck or…
  • n. (Canada) Street hockey.
  • n. (Canada, informal) Hockey.
  • n. Moonshine (illegal alcohol).

skin

  • n. (uncountable) The outer protective layer of the body of any animal, including of a human.
  • n. (uncountable) The outer protective layer of the fruit of a plant.
  • n. (countable) The skin and fur of an individual animal used by humans for clothing, upholstery, etc.
  • n. (countable) A congealed layer on the surface of a liquid.
  • n. (countable, computing) A set of resources that modifies the appearance and/or layout of the graphical…
  • n. (countable, slang) Rolling paper for cigarettes.
  • n. (countable, slang) Clipping of skinhead.
  • n. (Australia) A subgroup of Australian aboriginal people; such divisions are cultural and not related to…
  • n. (countable, video games) An alternate appearance (texture map or geometry) for a 3D character model in…
  • n. (slang) Bare flesh, particularly bare breasts.
  • n. A vessel made of skin, used for holding liquids.
  • n. (nautical) That part of a sail, when furled, which remains on the outside and covers the whole.
  • n. (nautical) The covering, as of planking or iron plates, outside the framing, forming the sides and bottom…
  • v. (transitive) To injure the skin of.
  • v. (transitive) To remove the skin and/or fur of an animal or a human.
  • v. (colloquial) To high five.
  • v. (transitive, computing, colloquial) To apply a skin to (a computer program).
  • v. (Britain, soccer, transitive) To use tricks to go past a defender.
  • v. (intransitive) To become covered with skin.
  • v. (transitive) To cover with skin, or as if with skin; hence, to cover superficially.
  • v. (US, slang, archaic) To produce, in recitation, examination, etc., the work of another for one's own,…
  • v. (slang, dated) To strip of money or property; to cheat.

spatter

  • v. (transitive) To splash with small droplets.
  • v. (transitive) To distribute by sprinkling; to sprinkle around.
  • v. (transitive, figuratively) To injure by aspersion; to defame.

spattering

  • v. present participle of spatter.
  • n. Something spattered.

splatter

  • n. An uneven shape or mess created by something dispersing on impact.
  • n. (attributive) A genre of gory horror.
  • v. (intransitive) To splash; to scatter; to land or strike in an uneven, distributed mess.
  • v. (transitive) To cause (something) to splatter.
  • v. (transitive) To spatter (something or somebody).

splattering

  • v. present participle of splatter.
  • n. A mess of something splattered.

splutter

  • v. To sputter.
  • v. To spray droplets while speaking.
  • v. To speak hurriedly and confusedly.
  • v. To perform to a substandard level.

sputtering

  • v. present participle of sputter.
  • n. A noise that sputters.
  • n. The ejection of atoms from the surface of a solid or liquid following bombardment with ions, atoms or…

struggle

  • n. Strife, contention, great effort.
  • v. To strive, to labour in difficulty, to fight (for or against), to contend.
  • v. To strive, or to make efforts, with a twisting, or with contortions of the body.

utter

  • adj. (now poetic, literary) Outer; furthest out, most remote.
  • adj. (obsolete) Outward.
  • adj. Absolute, unconditional, total, complete.
  • v. (transitive) To say.
  • v. (transitive) To use the voice.
  • v. (transitive) To make speech sounds which may or may not have an actual language involved.
  • v. (transitive) To make (a noise).
  • v. (law, transitive) To put counterfeit money, etc., into circulation.
  • adv. (obsolete) Further out; further away, outside.

utterance

  • n. An act of uttering.
  • n. Something spoken.
  • n. The ability to speak.
  • n. Manner of speaking.
  • n. (obsolete) Sale by offering to the public.
  • n. (obsolete) Putting in circulation.
  • n. (now literary) The utmost extremity (of a fight etc.).

vocalization

  • n. The act of vocalizing or something vocalized; a vocal utterance.
  • n. Any specific mode of utterance; pronunciation.
  • n. The use of speech to express an idea.
  • n. (music) The production of musical sounds using the voice, especially as an exercise.
  • n. (orthography) The vowel diacritics in Hebrew and Arabic, which are not normally written, but which are…
  • n. (phonology) The change in pronunciation of historically or variably consonant (typically sonorant) sounds…

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