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sputters

verb , present tense third-person singular of sputter

Synonyms and Antonyms of sputters

to speak rapidly, inarticulately, and usually unintelligibly

she was so shocked that, for a moment, all she could do was sputter

Synonyms of sputters

babbles, bumbles, chats, chatters, drivels, drools, gabbles, gibbers, jabbers, prattles

Words Related to sputters

blabbers, blathers, bleats, blithers, gabs, jangles, jaws, patters, prates, rattles, runs on, smatters, tittle-tattles, trolls, yaks (also yacks)

chunters [British], maunders, mouths, mumbles, murmurs, mutters

stammers, stutters

screeches, shouts, shrieks

Near Antonyms of sputters

articulates, enunciates, pronounces

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