spatter

1. 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. Source: opted

2. v. t. To distribute by sprinkling; to sprinkle around; as, to spatter blood. Source: opted

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

4. v. i. To throw something out of the mouth in a scattering manner; to sputter. Source: opted

5. n. the noise of something spattering or sputtering explosively Source: wordnet

6. n. the act of splashing a (liquid) substance on a surface Source: wordnet

7. v. dash a liquid upon or against Source: wordnet

8. v. rain gently Source: wordnet

9. v. spot, splash, or soil Source: wordnet

10. 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. 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. Source: webster

11. To throw something out of the mouth in a scattering manner; tosputter.That mind must needs be irrecoverably depraved, which, . . . tastingbut once of one just deed, spatters at it, and abhors the relish everafter. Milton. Source: adambom

12. n:45/v:55 n. the noise of something spattering or sputtering explosively n. the act of splashing a (liquid) substance on a surface v. dash a liquid upon or against Source: ecdict

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