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spattering

 

  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]: 
 
  spattering 
  n  1:  the  noise  of  something  spattering  or  sputtering  explosively; 
  "he  heard  a  spatter  of  gunfire"  [syn:  {spatter},  {splatter}, 
  {splattering},  {sputter},  {splutter},  {sputtering}] 
  2:  the  act  of  splashing  a  (liquid)  substance  on  a  surface  [syn: 
  {spatter},  {splash},  {splashing},  {splattering}]




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