Spatter

Quick meaning: Spatter is a verb meaning (transitive) To splash (someone or something) with small droplets.

Meaning

(transitive) To splash (someone or something) with small droplets.

More Meanings

1. (transitive, figuratively) To cover, or lie upon (something) by having been scattered, as if by splashing.
2. (transitive) To distribute (a liquid) by sprinkling; to sprinkle around.
3. (transitive, figurative) To send out or disperse (something) as if in droplets.
4. (intransitive) To send out small droplets; to splash in small droplets (on or against something).
5. A spray or shower of droplets hitting a surface.
6. A spot or spots of a substance spattered on a surface.
7. (obsolete, transitive, figurative) To injure by aspersion; to defame.

Example Sentences

When my wet chihuahua shook himself, I was spattered with smelly water.

Patches of light sifting through them [the trees] spattered the concrete walks with sunshine.

The low, whitewashed houses between the red and green acacia trees are spattered with shell-holes […]

His axel-tree, and chariot wheeles, all spatterd with the blood Hurl’d from the steeds houes, and the strakes.

Word Forms

• spatters
• spattering
• spattered

Synonyms for spatter

Depending on context, synonyms include spurt, strew, asperge, asperse, besprinkle, sprinkle.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include splattering, splatter, bespatter, splashing, splosh, splash.

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