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spitting

verb , present participle of spit

Synonyms and Antonyms of spitting

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 of spitting

goring, harpooning, impaling, jabbing, lancing, pecking, picking, piercing, pinking, puncturing, running through, skewering, spearing, spiking, stabbing, sticking, transfixing, transpiercing

Words Related to spitting

perforating, riddling

bayoneting (also bayonetting), dirking, gimleting, piking, poniarding, pronging, quilling

pinpricking, poking, pricking, punching, thrusting

cutting, knifing, slicing

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