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
- A job well done, he thought, and watched the rain spatter the spongy rubber cobbles of the midway.
- You are not very good at what you do, and I will enjoy your rebuttle of obnoxious spatter that you send my way.
- “Damn you to hell!” he grunted as he clenched his fist tight causing a bit of the guilt to spatter upon his brow.
- Auditor Karen Flynn, Prosecutor Russ Hauge, and Commissioner Chris Endresen would be well advised to keep their distance to avoid spatter from the lawsuit and Canvassing Board hearing.
- Some makers still bolster these paints with components like formaldehyde, crystalline silica, acetone and ammonia to help preserve the paint or give it other properties, such as spatter-resistance.
- You know, you just reminded me of a case I had where a woman allegedly committed suicide, but there were blood spatter, there was blood spatter, which is from the impact of the gun, under her pillow.
- Chittenden's who allowed his mind to wander, and did not concentrate, promptly made the acquaintance of the "spatter," a broad leathern strap; and the spatter hurt exceedingly, as I can testify from many personal experiences of it.
- In that context, I found phrases like these kind of disconcerting and hard to read: the passions of his bewildered heart … a maelstrom of melancholicaly erupted emotion … causing a bit of the guilt to spatter through his brow … that would never permit his repression, never allow for nothing short of predetermined apocalyptic salvation.
- "Plosh!" went Mr Jones right in backwards; and "spatter" went the foul mud all over his face and shirt-front, and then the poor little man tried to scramble out, but slipped in again, making himself worse than ever; but his next effort was more successful; and when Sam saw him standing amongst the potatoes looking all piebald, his heart was joyful within him, as he hurried home to tell the boys the success of their plot.
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