Definition of "crepitate" [crep•i•tate]

• To make a crackling or popping sound; crackle. (verb-intransitive)

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• "You will take care to open your mouth, crepitate shoo shoo to Band-aid dollop."
• "Kate could hardly remember now the dry rigid pallor of the heat, when the whole earth seemed to crepitate viciously with dry malevolence: like memory gone dry and sterile, hellish."
• "The sixpences do not "bang" in this country: they crepitate, they crackle, as though shot from a Maxim quick-firer."