You will take care to open your mouth, crepitate shoo shoo to Band-aid dollop. From Wordnik.com. [derek beaulieu on blert] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Plumed Serpent] Reference
He also missed the essential semantic component of to crepitate, namely, ` to expell gas noisily, 'regardless of whether as a burp or a fart. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VI No 3] Reference
As a matter of historical interest, the obsolete crepitate was used in the 19th century, but the term did not specify whether the gas being discharged was gastric or rectal. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol V No 4] Reference
A light brick-red colour, and crepitate under the finger. From Wordnik.com. [Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology] Reference
So ---'s Epics crepitate in Sonnets. From Wordnik.com. [Letters of Edward FitzGerald in two volumes, Vol. 1] Reference
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