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
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Recent Examples of spitting
Amanda Kooser, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2025
Authorities allege Workman was seen in a video spitting on her baby’s face and pouring dish soap in the infant’s mouth, according to unspecified court documents cited by WKRC, the Cincinnati Enquirer, and Fox 19.
—Nicole Acosta, People.com, 23 Dec. 2024
An Ohio mother is facing criminal charges for allegedly abusing her baby by spitting at her and pouring dish soap down her mouth, authorities said.
—Nicole Acosta, People.com, 23 Dec. 2024
The classic hero is at his lowest when the trailer begins, seemingly stranded in frozen terrain after a forceful crash landing and spitting blood from his mouth.
—Gabriella Rudy, NBC News, 19 Dec. 2024
Seconds later, the officers and paramedics picked Stevens up and put him on a stretcher with his legs still hobbled, his hands in cuffs behind his back and a spit hood over his head, a type of bag used to prevent people from spitting or biting.
—Shira Moolten, Sun Sentinel, 13 Dec. 2024
He was outfitted with a spit screen to prevent him from spitting on others.
—Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 12 Dec. 2024
You're used to people spitting lies at you about their identity.
—Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 28 Nov. 2024
The song grew into a post-grunge anthem, an abrasively catchy, groovy head-scratcher about being blown to hell, spitting in wishing wells, and cuckoo cannonballs.
—Drew Fortune, Vulture, 25 Nov. 2024
Verb
The sun is spitting out fantastic flares, hurling solar material at Earth and triggering spectacular auroras.
—Amanda Kooser, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2025
Authorities allege Workman was seen in a video spitting on her baby’s face and pouring dish soap in the infant’s mouth, according to unspecified court documents cited by WKRC, the Cincinnati Enquirer, and Fox 19.
—Nicole Acosta, People.com, 23 Dec. 2024
An Ohio mother is facing criminal charges for allegedly abusing her baby by spitting at her and pouring dish soap down her mouth, authorities said.
—Nicole Acosta, People.com, 23 Dec. 2024
The classic hero is at his lowest when the trailer begins, seemingly stranded in frozen terrain after a forceful crash landing and spitting blood from his mouth.
—Gabriella Rudy, NBC News, 19 Dec. 2024
Seconds later, the officers and paramedics picked Stevens up and put him on a stretcher with his legs still hobbled, his hands in cuffs behind his back and a spit hood over his head, a type of bag used to prevent people from spitting or biting.
—Shira Moolten, Sun Sentinel, 13 Dec. 2024
He was outfitted with a spit screen to prevent him from spitting on others.
—Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 12 Dec. 2024
You're used to people spitting lies at you about their identity.
—Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 28 Nov. 2024
The song grew into a post-grunge anthem, an abrasively catchy, groovy head-scratcher about being blown to hell, spitting in wishing wells, and cuckoo cannonballs.
—Drew Fortune, Vulture, 25 Nov. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for spitting
Verb
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Smith was convicted of fatally stabbing his estranged wife and her sons decades ago.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
27 Dec. 2024
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Brooks was sentenced to 12 years in prison in 2017 for stabbing his girlfriend in Monroe County.—
Kate Holland,
ABC News,
27 Dec. 2024
Verb
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In the meantime, Democrats are jabbing back at GOP claims over the New Orleans atrocity.—
Niall Stanage,
The Hill,
3 Jan. 2025
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Companies perfected the art of evasion, leaving us jabbing the zero key like a deranged woodpecker just to talk to someone with a pulse.—
Craig S. Smith,
Forbes,
16 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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Known for drippy paintings of words, phrases and geometric shapes, Pendleton will show his new paintings Composition and Movement, as well as a new single-channel video work, Resurrection City Revisited (Who Owns Geometry Anyway?).—
Roger Catlin,
Smithsonian Magazine,
15 Jan. 2025
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This is a newer direction for Devlin, who’s made drippy mirror frames and squiggly lamps, although much of his work does sit solidly in the world of feeling enchanted and otherworldly.—
Natalia Torija,
Curbed,
3 Jan. 2025
Verb
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As such, investors will be better off picking ADBE stock in the current dip for robust long-term gains, in our view.—
Trefis Team,
Forbes,
8 Jan. 2025
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That’s the cost of not picking in the first round in each of the last three drafts.—
Scott Wheeler,
The Athletic,
8 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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This is partially because the lungs breathe out moisture in misty breaths.—
Tommy Tuberville,
Newsweek,
8 Jan. 2025
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His eyes had turned misty at the memory of his mother’s words.—
Anna Russell,
The New Yorker,
3 Jan. 2025
Verb
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And an image of a woman named Linda Jackson washing her hair in a plastic bin on the Navajo Nation, the striking mountains of Monument Valley piercing the background, was how Elliot Ross shed light on what life is like in America’s water inequality capital.—
TIME Photo Department,
TIME,
20 Dec. 2024
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The She Wolf's howl is as piercing as ever.—
Pamela Avila,
USA TODAY,
19 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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Tuesday is expected to be a drizzly day in metro Detroit but temperatures will remain fairly similar in the 50s until Thursday.—
Darcie Moran,
Detroit Free Press,
18 Nov. 2024
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But the fact is Brissett didn’t light it up (3-for-7 for 17 yards spread out over three series) in the Patriots’ 14-13 loss to the Eagles on a drizzly night at Gillette Stadium.—
Steve Buckley,
The Athletic,
21 Aug. 2024
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“Spitting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spitting. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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