spatter

IPA: spˈætɝ

noun

  • A spray or shower of droplets hitting a surface.
  • A spot or spots of a substance spattered on a surface.
  • The sound of droplets hitting a surface.
  • (figuratively) A burst or series of sounds resembling the sound of droplets hitting a surface.
  • (figuratively) A collection of objects scattered like droplets splashed onto a surface.

verb

  • (transitive) To splash (someone or something) with small droplets.
  • (transitive, figuratively) To cover, or lie upon (something) by having been scattered, as if by splashing.
  • (transitive) To distribute (a liquid) by sprinkling; to sprinkle around.
  • (transitive, figurative) To send out or disperse (something) as if in droplets.
  • (intransitive) To send out small droplets; to splash in small droplets (on or against something).
  • (obsolete, transitive, figurative) To injure by aspersion; to defame.
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Examples of "spatter" in Sentences

  • They don't spatter germs.
  • A lava spatters at the very top.
  • The blood is spattered everywhere.
  • Blood was spattered around the walls.
  • The water is spattered all over the room.
  • A gunshot sounds and blood spatters on the wall.
  • It's better not to spatter blue all over the page.
  • Things get messy in the mud with the pigs and hot grease spatter.
  • In the first, the canvas was spattered by water from a leaking air vent.
  • Two cars, mottled with rust and spattered with mud, sat in front of the flat, tawny house.

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