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spatter
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spatter
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun spatter has 2 senses
- spatter(n = noun.event) spattering, splatter, splattering, splutter, sputter, sputtering - the noise of something spattering or sputtering explosively; "he heard a spatter of gunfire" is a kind of noise
- spatter(n = noun.act) spattering, splash, splashing, splattering - the act of splashing a (liquid) substance on a surface; Array is a kind of painting
Derived forms verb spatter1, verb spatter3
Verb spatter has 3 senses
- spatter(v = verb.contact) plash, splash, splatter, splosh, swash - dash a liquid upon or against; "The mother splashed the baby's face with water" is one way to disperse, dot, dust, scatter, sprinkle
- spatter(v = verb.weather) patter, pitter-patter, spit, sprinkle - rain gently; "It has only sprinkled, but the roads are slick" is one way to rain, rain down
- spatter(v = verb.contact) bespatter - spot, splash, or soil; "The baby spattered the bib with food" is one way to blob, blot, fleck, spot
Derived forms noun spatter2, noun spattering2
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody with something
Somebody ----s something with something
Sample sentence:
It is ----ing
Derived form noun spatter2
Sample sentence:
They spatter the bread with melted butter
CIDE DICTIONARY
spatter, v. t. [From the root of spit salvia.].
- 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. [1913 Webster]"Upon any occasion he is to be spattered over with the blood of his people." [1913 Webster]
- To distribute by sprinkling; to sprinkle around; as, to spatter blood. Pope. [1913 Webster]
- Fig.: To injure by aspersion; to defame; to soil; also, to throw out in a defamatory manner. [1913 Webster]
spatter, v. i.
To throw something out of the mouth in a scattering manner; to sputter. [1913 Webster]
"That mind must needs be irrecoverably depraved, which, . . . tasting but once of one just deed, spatters at it, and abhors the relish ever after."
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OXFORD DICTIONARY
spatter, v. & n.
--v.
1 tr. a (often foll. by with) splash (a person etc.) (spattered him with mud). b scatter or splash (liquid, mud, etc.) here and there.
2 intr. (of rain etc.) fall here and there (glass spattered down).
3 tr. slander (a person's honour etc.).
--n.
1 (usu. foll. by of) a splash (a spatter of mud).
2 a quick pattering sound.
--v.
1 tr. a (often foll. by with) splash (a person etc.) (spattered him with mud). b scatter or splash (liquid, mud, etc.) here and there.
2 intr. (of rain etc.) fall here and there (glass spattered down).
3 tr. slander (a person's honour etc.).
--n.
1 (usu. foll. by of) a splash (a spatter of mud).
2 a quick pattering sound.
Etymology
frequent. f. base as in Du., LG spatten burst, spout
THESAURUS
spatter
asperge, barrage, beat, beating, bedabble, bedaub, bedew, bespatter, bespeckle, bespot, besprinkle, bloodstain, blot, blotch, blur, brand, bread, crumb, dab, dabble, damp, dampen, dash, daub, dew, dot, douche, dredge, drizzle, drum, drum music, drumbeat, drumfire, drumming, dust, eyesore, fall, few, fleck, flick, flour, flutter, flyspeck, foam, freckle, froth, handful, hose, hose down, humect, humectate, humidify, irrigate, macula, maculate, maculation, macule, mark, mizzle, moisten, paddle, palpitation, paradiddle, patch, patter, pelt, pepper, pitapat, pitter-patter, plash, pound, pounding, pour, pour with rain, powder, precipitate, pulsation, rain, rain tadpoles, rat-a-tat, rat-tat, rat-tat-tat, rataplan, rattattoo, roll, rub-a-dub, ruff, ruffle, scattering, shower, shower down, slobber, slop, slosh, smatter, smattering, smear, smirch, smouch, smudge, smut, smutch, sparge, spattering, speck, speckle, spindrift, spit, splash, splatter, splotch, splutter, sponge, spot, spray, sprinkle, sprinkling, spume, sputter, staccato, stain, stigma, stream, stud, swash, syringe, taint, tarnish, tat-tat, tattoo, throb, throbbing, thrum, thumping, tom-tom, water, weep, wet, wet downROGET THESAURUS
spatter
Uncleanness
VB be unclean, become unclean, rot, putrefy, ferment, fester, rankle, reek, stink, mold, molder, go bad, render unclean, dirt, dirty, daub, blot, blur, smudge, smutch, soil, smoke, tarnish, slaver, spot, smear, smirch, begrease, dabble, drabble, draggle, daggle, spatter, slubber, besmear, bemire, beslime, begrime, befoul, splash, stain, distain, maculate, sully, pollute, defile, debase, contaminate, taint, leaven, corrupt, cover with dust, drabble in the mud, roil, wallow in the mire, slobber, slabber.
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