Synonyms of spitting

spitting 1 of 2

adjective

as in sprinkling

Related Words

• sprinkling
• drizzling
• drippy
• pouring
• misty
• drizzly
• mizzly
• precipitating
• rainy
• wet
• stormy

Dissimilar Words

• dry

spitting

2 of 2

verb

present participle of spit

as in stabbing

to penetrate or hold (something) with a pointed object

according to the propaganda put out by the war ministry, enemy soldiers were spitting innocent babies on bayonets

Synonyms & Similar Words

• stabbing
• jabbing
• picking
• puncturing
• piercing
• sticking
• pecking
• spiking
• poking
• spearing
• punching
• harpooning
• impaling
• slicing
• lancing
• transfixing
• skewering
• running through
• pinking
• goring
• transpiercing
• perforating
• cutting
• riddling
• spindling
• thrusting
• bayoneting
• pricking
• knifing
• piking
• pinpricking
• pronging
• quilling
• gimleting
• dirking
• poniarding

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of spitting

Verb

Unfortunately for Miami, Suarez, who has been on fire, is suspended for the next six Leagues Cups games for spitting at a Seattle Sounders staff member after the 2025 Final last August. — Michelle Kaufman, Miami Herald, 2 Aug. 2026

Starship is designed to launch 60 Starlink V3 satellites at a time, spitting them out through a slit-like payload bay door like a giant PEZ candy dispenser. — Tariq Malik, Space.com, 25 July 2026

This happened before Juliette started spitting out the pills. — Noel Murray, Vulture, 24 July 2026

And then there were watermelon-eating and seed-spitting contests and old fashioned sack races. — Orlando Sentinel Staff, The Orlando Sentinel, 4 July 2026

Some three hours into the four-hour drive, the road plunged into a dizzying scribble of hairpin bends, eventually spitting us out into the Colca Valley, where, at the end of 2023, Andean pitched up Puqio. — Chris Schalkx, Travel + Leisure, 4 July 2026

Jenkins said Macias-Gomez was also charged with battery on a peace officer for spitting. — Carlos E. Castañeda, CBS News, 1 July 2026

First, play was allowed to restart, which was previously a hard stop on any VAR intervention — except violent conduct and spitting at someone. — Ben Burrows, New York Times, 13 June 2026

In some ways, DOGE acted as an expedited revolving door, giving the young engineers brief, chaotic experience across multiple government agencies, before spitting them back into the Valley, which is chock-full of investors itching to get in on government-adjacent technology. — Margaux MacColl, Vanity Fair, 12 June 2026

Phrases Containing spitting

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