spattering (verb)

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• bespatter — verb a) To spatter or cover with something; sprinkle with anything liquid, or with any wet or adhesive substance. b) To soil by spattering …   Wiktionary

• bedabble — verb To make something wet by sprinkling or spattering water, paint, or other liquid on it. Bedabbled with the dew, and torn with briers; I can no further crawl, no further go …   Wiktionary

• spatter — verb 1 (T) to scatter or throw small amounts of mud, dirt etc all over a surface: spatter sb/sth with: a passing car spattered with mud | spatter sth on/over etc: Grey flicked his brush spattering paint over my shirt. 2 (I) if liquid spatters on… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• spatter — I. verb Etymology: akin to Frisian spatterje to spatter, Middle Dutch bespatten to splash Date: 1600 intransitive verb to spurt forth in scattered drops < blood spattering everywhere > transitive verb 1. to splash with or as if with a liquid;… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• spat´ter|ing|ly — spat|ter «SPAT uhr», verb, noun. –v.t. 1. to scatter or dash in drops or particles; splatter: »to spatter paint, to spatter mud. 2. to strike in a shower; strike in a number of places: »Bullets spattered the wall. 3. a) to sprinkle or spot with… …   Useful english dictionary

• spat|ter — «SPAT uhr», verb, noun. –v.t. 1. to scatter or dash in drops or particles; splatter: »to spatter paint, to spatter mud. 2. to strike in a shower; strike in a number of places: »Bullets spattered the wall. 3. a) to sprinkle or spot with something… …   Useful english dictionary

• plash — I. noun Etymology: probably imitative Date: 1513 splash II. verb Date: 1542 intransitive verb to cause a splashing or spattering effect transitive verb to break the surface of (water) ; splash …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• spatter — /ˈspætə / (say spatuh) verb (t) 1. to scatter or dash in small particles or drops: to spatter mud. 2. to splash with something in small particles: to spatter the ground with water. 3. to sprinkle or spot with something that soils or stains. –verb …  

• splutter — /ˈsplʌtə / (say splutuh) verb (i) 1. to talk hastily and confusedly or incoherently, as in excitement or embarrassment. 2. to make a spluttering sound, or emit particles of something explosively, as something frying or a pen scattering ink. 3. to …  

• spatter — (v.) 1570s (implied in spattering), possibly a frequentative verb from the stem of Du. or Low Ger. spatten to spout, burst, of imitative origin. Related: Spattered …   Etymology dictionary

• spatter — UK [ˈspætə(r)] / US [ˈspætər] verb [intransitive/transitive] Word forms spatter : present tense I/you/we/they spatter he/she/it spatters present participle spattering past tense spattered past participle spattered if you spatter a surface with a… …   English dictionary