spatter
verb (used with object)
to scatter or dash in small particles or drops.
spattered
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past participleof spatter.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof spatter.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
spatterverb (used with object)to scatter or dash in small particles or drops.
Example Sentences
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The house’s roof, the front steps and the driveway were spattered with white blotches, as if the area had been the site of a fierce paintball battle.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 16, 2026
After hours spent in the thick pollution-choking parts of northern Thailand, Pon Doikam gets home and blows her burning nose to find blood clots spattered across the tissue.
From Barron's ● Apr. 3, 2026
English was the common language, spattered with classical Latin.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 16, 2024
The candles in the chandeliers overflowed and spattered wax on the clothes of the fancy people below.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 4, 2023
His bathrobe was spattered with ketchup, and he kept stumbling around in fuzzy pink bunny slippers, swinging his gas-powered weed whacker at the half-dozen harpies who were hovering over his picnic table.
From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan
