spatter
verb (used with object)
to scatter or dash in small particles or drops.
has spattered
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present perfectof spatter (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Sporadically, variously, but never so sweepingly as last week, censure has spattered the methods and conduct of U. S. college athletics.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is our blood that has spattered it, and our arms that have borne it and won for it glory.
From Four Years A Scout and Spy by E. C. Downs
Of course, in a general way, one knows if some important pen has shown a comprehension of what one meant to do and tried to do, or has spattered venom upon one's poor achievement.
From McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 6, May, 1896 by Various
