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spatter |
3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Spatter \Spat"ter\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Spattered}; p. pr & vb n. {Spattering}.] [From the root of spit salvia.] 1. To sprinkle with a liquid or with any wet substance, as water, mud, or the like to make wet of foul spots upon by sprinkling; as to spatter a coat; to spatter the floor; to spatter boots with mud. Upon any occasion he is to be spattered over with the blood of his people. --Burke. 2. To distribute by sprinkling; to sprinkle around as to spatter blood. --Pope. 3. Fig.: To injure by aspersion; to defame; to soil; also to throw out in a defamatory manner. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Spatter \Spat"ter\, v. i. To throw something out of the mouth in a scattering manner; to sputter. That mind must needs be irrecoverably depraved, which . . . tasting but once of one just deed, spatters at it and abhors the relish ever after --Milton. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: spatter n 1: the noise of something spattering or sputtering explosively; "he heard a spatter of gunfire" [syn: {spattering}, {splatter}, {splattering}, {sputter}, {splutter}, {sputtering}] 2: the act of splashing a (liquid) substance on a surface [syn: {spattering}, {splash}, {splashing}, {splattering}] v 1: dash a liquid upon or against; "The mother splashed the baby's face with water" [syn: {splatter}, {plash}, {splash}, {splosh}, {swash}] 2: rain gently [syn: {sprinkle}, {spit}, {patter}, {pitter-patter}] 3: spot, splash, or soil; "The baby spattered the bib with food" [syn: {bespatter}]
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