spit

To force liquid, food, or another substance out of your mouth.

• Don't spit on the floor.
• She spat out a watermelon seed.
• He was spitting blood after the accident.

How to use it: spit something out (She spat the bitter medicine out.); spit into/on something (He spat into the sink.)

Similar words: expectorate

Opposites: swallow

Common phrases: spit something out, spit on something, spit into something

To push a long cooking rod or another sharp object through something.

• Spit the meat before cooking it.
• They spitted a chicken over the fire.
• The soldier spitted his enemy on a spear.

How to use it: spit something on something (They spitted the lamb on a long iron rod.)

Similar words: skewer, impale, pierce

Common phrases: spit a chicken, spit the meat, spit on something

The liquid in your mouth, especially when you push it out.

• There was spit on the floor.
• She wiped the spit from the baby's chin.
• A drop of spit landed on his sleeve.

Similar words: saliva

Common phrases: a drop of spit, covered in spit, spit on something

A long rod pushed through meat so it can turn while cooking over heat.

• The chicken cooked on a spit.
• He turned the spit above the fire.
• They roasted a whole lamb on a metal spit.

Similar words: skewer

Common phrases: on a spit, roasting spit, turn the spit

A long, narrow strip of land, usually sand, that extends from the shore into water.

• Birds rested on the sandy spit.
• We walked to the end of the spit.
• The storm washed away part of the narrow spit of land.

How to use it: spit of land/sand (A thin spit of sand separates the bay from the sea.)

Similar words: sandspit

Common phrases: a sandy spit, a narrow spit, spit of land