Bespatter

Quick meaning: Bespatter is a verb meaning (transitive) To spatter or cover with something; sprinkle with anything liquid, or with any wet or adhesive substance.

Meaning

(transitive) To spatter or cover with something; sprinkle with anything liquid, or with any wet or adhesive substance.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To soil by spattering.
2. (transitive, figuratively) To asperse with calumny or reproach; shend.

Example Sentences

The flour bespattering Squeaker's now neglected clothes spoke eloquently of his clumsy efforts at damper making.

[D]azed and blinded, she bent her head as if to let the pelt of jagged hail, the drench of dirty water, bespatter her unrebuked.

Beſides, he hath not been afraid to rail on you, my Lord, who are now appointed to be his Judge, calling you an ungodly Villain, with many other ſuch like vilifying terms, with which he hath beſpattered most of the Gentry of our Town.

Word Forms

• bespatters
• bespattering
• bespattered

Synonyms for bespatter

Depending on context, synonyms include spatter.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include spatter, sprinkle, bedash, bespread, intersprinkle, blot.

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