spat·ter
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| 1. | to scatter or dash in small particles or drops: The dog spattered mud on everyone when he shook himself. |
| 2. | to splash with something in small particles: to spatter the ground with water. |
| 3. | to sprinkle or spot with something that soils or stains. |
| 4. | to send out small particles or drops, as falling water: rain spattering on a tin roof. |
| 5. | to strike a surface in or as in a shower, as bullets. |
| 6. | the act or the sound of spattering: the spatter of rain on a roof. |
| 7. | a splash or spot of something spattered. |
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spatter
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| spat·ter
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v. spat·tered, spat·ter·ing, spat·ters v. tr.
v. intr.
n.
[Perhaps of Low German origin.] |
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spatter
1576 (implied in spattering), possibly a frequentative verb from the stem of Du. or Low Ger. spatten "to spout, burst," of imitative origin.
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| spatter | |
noun | |
| 1. | the noise of something spattering or sputtering explosively; "he heard a spatter of gunfire" |
| 2. | the act of splashing a (liquid) substance on a surface |
verb | |
| 1. | dash a liquid upon or against; "The mother splashed the baby's face with water" |
| 2. | rain gently; "It has only sprinkled, but the roads are slick" [syn: sprinkle] |
| 3. | spot, splash, or soil; "The baby spattered the bib with food" |
| WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University. |
Spatter
Spat"ter\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Spattered; p. pr. & vb. n. Spattering.] [From the root of spit salvia.]1. 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. Upon any occasion he is to be spattered over with the blood of his people. --Burke. 2. To distribute by sprinkling; to sprinkle around; as, to spatter blood. --Pope. 3. Fig.: To injure by aspersion; to defame; to soil; also, to throw out in a defamatory manner.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
Spatter
Spat"ter\, v. i. To throw something out of the mouth in a scattering manner; to sputter. That mind must needs be irrecoverably depraved, which, . . . tasting but once of one just deed, spatters at it, and abhors the relish ever after. --Milton.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
spatter
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