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spattered |
2 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 WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: spattered adj 1: covered patchily; often used in combination; "waves dabbled with moonlight"; "a blood-spattered room"; "gardens splashed with color"; "kitchen walls splattered with grease" [syn: {dabbled}, {splashed}, {splashy}, {splattered}] 2: spattered or spotted with dirt or filth; often used in combination; "dingy bespattered walls"; "a grease-spattered floor"; "a besplashed coach"; "mud-splashed trouser legs" [syn: {bespattered}, {besplashed}, {splashed}]
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