spatter

[Spat·ter]

If you spatter something, you splash it with tiny drops of a liquid, like the way the artist Jackson Pollock dripped and spattered paint across a large canvas.

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To sprinkle with a liquid or with any wet substance, as water, mud, or the like; to make wet of foul spots upon by sprinkling; as, to spatter a coat; to spatter the floor; to spatter boots with mud.

Noun
the act of splashing a (liquid) substance on a surface

Noun
the noise of something spattering or sputtering explosively; "he heard a spatter of gunfire"

Verb
dash a liquid upon or against; "The mother splashed the baby''s face with water"

Verb
spot, splash, or soil; "The baby spattered the bib with food"

Verb
rain gently; "It has only sprinkled, but the roads are slick"

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v. t.
To sprinkle with a liquid or with any wet substance, as water, mud, or the like; to make wet of foul spots upon by sprinkling; as, to spatter a coat; to spatter the floor; to spatter boots with mud.

v. t.
To distribute by sprinkling; to sprinkle around; as, to spatter blood.

v. t.
Fig.: To injure by aspersion; to defame; to soil; also, to throw out in a defamatory manner.

v. i.
To throw something out of the mouth in a scattering manner; to sputter.


Spatter

Spat"ter , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Spattered ; p. pr. & vb. n. Spattering.] [From the root of spit salvia.] 1. To sprinkle with a liquid or with any wet substance, as water, mud, or the like; to make wet of foul spots upon by sprinkling; as, to spatter a coat; to spatter the floor; to spatter boots with mud.
Upon any occasion he is to be spattered over with the blood of his people.
2. To distribute by sprinkling; to sprinkle around; as, to spatter blood. Pope. 3. Fig.: To injure by aspersion; to defame; to soil; also, to throw out in a defamatory manner.

Spatter

Spat"ter, v. i. To throw something out of the mouth in a scattering manner; to sputter.
That mind must needs be irrecoverably depraved, which, . . . tasting but once of one just deed, spatters at it, and abhors the relish ever after.

To sprinkle with a liquid or with any wet substance, as water, mud, or the like; to make wet of foul spots upon by sprinkling; as, to spatter a coat; to spatter the floor; to spatter boots with mud.

To throw something out of the mouth in a scattering manner; to sputter.

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