spatter
to scatter or dash in small particles or drops: The dog spattered mud on everyone when he shook himself.
to splash with something in small particles: to spatter the ground with water.
to sprinkle or spot with something that soils or stains.
to send out small particles or drops, as falling water: rain spattering on a tin roof.
to strike a surface in or as in a shower, as bullets.
the act or the sound of spattering: the spatter of rain on a roof.
a splash or spot of something spattered.
Origin of spatter
1Other words from spatter
- spat·ter·ing·ly, adverb
- un·spat·tered, adjective
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How to use spatter in a sentence
Blood spatters on the pavement seem to confirm that he was moving toward Wilson when the instantly fatal shot was fired.
90 Seconds of Fury in Ferguson Are the Key to Making Peace in America | Michael Daly | November 26, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTTarantino gets that right, even if the blood he spatters across the bolls comes from the wrong veins.
Django Unchained’s Bloody Real History in Mississippi | Adam Rothman | February 24, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTHe was filled with those elemental emotions that make a man see in spatters of crimson.
The Escape of Mr. Trimm | Irvin S. CobbIs the Emperor a gentleman, with spatters of blood on his clothes, scourged from the backs of noble Hungarian women?
The Romany Rye | George BorrowFor this gas bubbling through the molten metal spatters it, thus spoiling one assay and throwing doubt on all the rest.
A Textbook of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. | Cornelius Beringer and John Jacob Beringer
She, too, in her quick imagination, was seeing the young private and spatters of blood on the terrace.
The Last Shot | Frederick PalmerIf you find the rice spatters in the fat, add a very little more flour.
Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889 | Barkham Burroughs
British Dictionary definitions for spatter
/ (ˈspætə) /
to scatter or splash (a substance, esp a liquid) or (of a substance) to splash (something) in scattered drops: to spatter mud on the car; mud spattered in her face
(tr) to sprinkle, cover, or spot (with a liquid)
(tr) to slander or defame
(intr) to shower or rain down: bullets spattered around them
the sound of something spattering
something spattered, such as a spot or splash
the act or an instance of spattering
Origin of spatter
1Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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