Spatter

['spætə] or ['spætɚ]

Definition

(noun.) the act of splashing a (liquid) substance on a surface.

(noun.) the noise of something spattering or sputtering explosively; 'he heard a spatter of gunfire'.

(verb.) dash a liquid upon or against; 'The mother splashed the baby's face with water'.

(verb.) spot, splash, or soil; 'The baby spattered the bib with food'.

Typist: Paul--From WordNet

Definition

(v. t.) To sprinkle with a liquid or with any wet substance, as water, mud, or the like; to make wet of foul spots upon by sprinkling; as, to spatter a coat; to spatter the floor; to spatter boots with mud.

(v. t.) To distribute by sprinkling; to sprinkle around; as, to spatter blood.

(v. t.) Fig.: To injure by aspersion; to defame; to soil; also, to throw out in a defamatory manner.

(v. i.) To throw something out of the mouth in a scattering manner; to sputter.

Typed by Harley

Synonyms and Synonymous

v. a. [1]. Sprinkle, besprinkle, bespatter, splash, plash.[2]. Daub, bedaub, smear, besmear, begrime, bedraggle, spot, stain, soil.

Edited by Beverly

Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:Besprinkle, besmear

Typed by Arthur

Definition

v.t. to throw out or scatter upon: to scatter about: to sprinkle with dirt or anything moist: to defame.—n. the act of spattering: what is spattered.—n.pl. Spatt′er-dash′es coverings for the legs to keep them clean from water and mud a kind of gaiters.—n. Spatt′er-work a method of producing designs by covering the surface with the pattern and then spattering colouring matter on the parts exposed.

Typist: Owen