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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