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splash

  [splash]
–verb (used with object)
1. to wet or soil by dashing masses or particles of water, mud, or the like; spatter: Don't splash her dress!
2. to fall upon (something) in scattered masses or particles, as a liquid does.
3. to cause to appear spattered.
4. to dash (water, mud, etc.) about in scattered masses or particles.
5. to make (one's way) with splashing: He splashed his way across the pool.
6. Logging. to move (logs) by releasing a body of water from a splash dam.
–verb (used without object)
7. to dash a liquid or semiliquid substance about.
8. to fall, move, or strike with a splash or splashes.
9. (of liquid) to dash with force in scattered masses or particles.
–noun
10. the act of splashing.
11. the sound of splashing.
12. a quantity of some liquid or semiliquid substance splashed upon or in a thing.
13. a spot caused by something splashed.
14. a patch, as of color or light.
15. Logging.
a. the act of splashing logs.
b. water released, as from a splash dam, for splashing logs.
16. a striking show or impression.
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Origin:
1705–15; perh. alter. of plash 1

Related forms:
splash⋅ing⋅ly, adverb

Synonyms:
16. ado, impression, uproar, sensation.
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splash   (splāsh)   
v.   splashed, splash·ing, splash·es

v.   tr.

  1. To propel or scatter (a fluid) about in flying masses.

  2. To scatter fluid onto in flying masses; wet, stain, or soil with flying fluid.

  3. To cause (something) to scatter fluid in flying masses: splashed their hands in the water.

  4. To make (one's way) with or by scattering of fluid.

  5. To apply patches or spots of a contrasting, usually bright, color to: a floral pattern that was splashed with pink; moonlight splashing the deserted courtyard.

  6. To display or publicize very noticeably: Their engagement was splashed all over the tabloids.

v.   intr.

    1. To cause a fluid to scatter in flying masses: splashed about in the swimming pool.

    2. To fall into or move through fluid with this effect: We splashed through the waves.

    3. To move, spill, or fly about in scattered masses: Whipped cream splashed onto the counter.

    4. To produce a sound or sight associated with this effect.

    1. To move, spill, or fly about in scattered masses: Whipped cream splashed onto the counter.

    2. To produce a sound or sight associated with this effect.

n.  

  1. The act or sound of splashing: went for a splash in the lake; heard the splash of the fish being thrown back.

    1. A flying mass of fluid.

    2. A small amount, especially of a fluid: a splash of liqueur on the cake.

  3. A marking produced by or as if by scattered fluid: a splash of light.

  4. A great though often short-lived impression; a stir: a publicity splash.

Phrasal Verb(s):
splash downTo land in water. Used of a spacecraft or missile.

[Probably alteration of plash.]
splash'er n.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Word Origin & History

splash  (v.)
1715, probably an alteration of plash with an intensive s-. The noun is attested from 1736; meaning "striking or ostentatious display" is first attested 1804. Splashy "sensational" first attested 1836. Splash-down in the spacecraft sense is attested from 1961.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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