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Crepitate

verb
(past & past part. crepitated; pres. part. crepitating)
1.
Make a crackling sound.  Synonym: crackle.






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"Crepitate" Quotes from Famous Books



... all and all, America is a trying place of sojourn for the aforesaid canny Scot—the man who without being stingy (oh, dear, no!) has "all his generous impulses under perfect control." The sixpences do not "bang" in this country: they crepitate, they crackle, as though shot from a Maxim quick-firer. For instance, the lowest electric-trolley fare is twopence-halfpenny. It is true that for five cents you can, if you wish it, ride fifteen or twenty miles; but that advantage becomes inappreciable when you don't want to ride ...
— America To-day, Observations and Reflections • William Archer



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