splatter

[ splat-er ]

verb (used with or without object)

1. to splash and scatter upon impact:

   The paint splattered when I dropped the bucket.

noun

1. an act or instance of splattering.
2. the quantity splattered:

   to wipe up a splatter of ketchup on the rug.

adjective

1. characterized by gory imagery:

   splatter films.

splatter

/ ˈsplætə /

verb

1. to splash with small blobs; spatter

noun

1. a splash of liquid, mud, etc

Other Words From

• un·splattered adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of splatter¹

1775–85; blend of splash and spatter

Example Sentences

Plus, this allows the juicer to work with the pitcher lid on, removing any potential splatter.

From Popular-Science

While hiking, you can hear the crunch of a twig beneath your boots, and each drop of rain individually splattering into molecules as it returns to the sponge-like soil below.

From The Daily Beast

He must prefer to have my partially-digested cicada carcasses splatter on a tile floor instead of the deep pile carpet.

From Washington Post

Some researchers call this embodied cognition–our tendency, when we’re engaged with a piece of art or music or performance, to see ourselves in the work, or see ourselves creating the work, splattering the paint like Jackson Pollock.

From Time

Your Steve would probably take the lead on this one, and you both would laugh at any stray splatter of tomato sauce.

From Washington Post

Outside of the absurdity of “blood splatter” flying through the air is the implication that Ebola can be “breathed” at all.

From The Daily Beast

The pastor and his congregants sat around the TV and watched as fists began to fly and blood began to splatter.

From The Daily Beast

Fat rain droplets, like little eggs, started to splatter on my windshield, smearing with each sway of the wipers.

From The Daily Beast

The hammer strikes would splatter tar on their uncovered skin causing lacerations and bleeding.

From The Daily Beast

First, you get a hell of a lot less splatter (see, splatter guard).

From The Daily Beast

Beardsley's fist itched to splatter those handsome features around a little.

From Project Gutenberg

But Forrester blocked it; the splatter of free energy struck at the nearby trees, sending them crashing to the ground.

From Project Gutenberg

Somewhere out there in the far distance was the constant splatter of Mausers like rain on a tin roof.

From Project Gutenberg

Only when alone under that splatter of stars did he feel the moment big with more than a mere release from textbooks.

From Project Gutenberg

A splatter of partially dried mud on the trunk of a tree revealed that the passer-by had left the spot some hours before.

From Project Gutenberg