Spatter

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  • intransitive verb. To scatter (a liquid, for example) in drops or small amounts.
  • intransitive verb. To spot, splash, or soil with drops or small amounts.
  • intransitive verb. To strike or land on in a dispersed way.
  • intransitive verb. To come forth in drops or small amounts.
  • intransitive verb. To fall in a shower or make contact in a dispersed way, as rain or bullets.
  • noun. The act or an instance of spattering.
  • noun. A spattering sound.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A drop or splash of something spattered.
  • noun. A small amount; a smattering.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The act of spattering, or the state of being spattered; a spattering or splashing effect.
  • noun. A quick succession of not very loud sounds, such as is produced by the spattering of some substance.
  • noun. That which is spattered; a small splash, as of something thrown or falling in drops: as, a spatter of milk, ink, or mud on one's clothes.
  • To scatter or throw about carelessly, as some fluid or semi-fluid substance; dash or splash so as to fall in spreading drops or small quantities: as, to spatter water or mud over a person; to spatter oaths or calumnies.
  • To dash or splash upon; bespatter, literally or figuratively: as, to spatter a person with water, mud, or slander.
  • To sputter; act or talk in a sputtering manner.
  • To undergo or cause scattering or splashing in drops or small quantities.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. 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.
  • transitive verb. To distribute by sprinkling; to sprinkle around.
  • transitive verb. Fig.: To injure by aspersion; to defame; to soil; also, to throw out in a defamatory manner.
  • intransitive verb. To throw something out of the mouth in a scattering manner; to sputter.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To splash with small droplets.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. spot, splash, or soil
  • noun. the act of splashing a (liquid) substance on a surface
  • noun. the noise of something spattering or sputtering explosively
  • verb. dash a liquid upon or against
  • verb. rain gently
  • Word Usage
    "Auditor Karen Flynn, Prosecutor Russ Hauge, and Commissioner Chris Endresen would be well advised to keep their distance to avoid spatter from the lawsuit and Canvassing Board hearing."
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    scatter  sprinkle  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    blob  blot  fleck  noise  painting  
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    Words with the same terminal sound
    Attar  Hatter  Tatar  antimatter  attar  
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    asperge  barrage  beat  beating  bedabble  
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