spatter

Speech parts

1. spatter - Noun

2. spatter - Verb

Meaning

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

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

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

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

spit splash sprinkle splatter bespatter patter swash spray stain drizzle sputter splashing plash splutter spattering
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Antonyms

clean chunk do brush up clean house do the dishes
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Hypernyms

fleck dot painting noise spot rain

Hyponyms

puddle slush slosh slosh around slush around

Phrases with the word

spatter glass

Derivatives

spattered spattering

Anagrams

tapster trapset

Examples

The baby spattered the bib with food Source: Internet

It has only sprinkled, but the roads are slick Source: Internet

The mother splashed the baby's face with water Source: Internet

he heard a spatter of gunfire Source: Internet

It tends to produce a germy spatter of respiratory droplets and aerosols, which increase the likelihood of spreading infection. Source: Internet

Detective Garda Shane Curran from the Garda Technical Bureau said he found blood spatter on a radiator behind an armchair which was close to where Mr Kivlehan’s body was found. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

Spatola spats spatted spatter cone spatter glass spatter-dock