'Spatter' definitions:

Definition of 'spatter'

From: WordNet
noun
The noise of something spattering or sputtering explosively; "he heard a spatter of gunfire" [syn: spatter, spattering, splatter, splattering, sputter, splutter, sputtering]
noun
The act of splashing a (liquid) substance on a surface [syn: spatter, spattering, splash, splashing, splattering]
verb
Dash a liquid upon or against; "The mother splashed the baby's face with water" [syn: spatter, splatter, plash, splash, splosh, swash]
verb
Rain gently; "It has only sprinkled, but the roads are slick" [syn: sprinkle, spit, spatter, patter, pitter- patter]
verb
Spot, splash, or soil; "The baby spattered the bib with food" [syn: spatter, bespatter]

Definition of 'Spatter'

From: GCIDE
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • Upon any occasion he is to be spattered over with the blood of his people. --Burke. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To distribute by sprinkling; to sprinkle around; as, to spatter blood. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. Fig.: To injure by aspersion; to defame; to soil; also, to throw out in a defamatory manner. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Spatter'

From: GCIDE
  • Spatter \Spat"ter\, v. i. To throw something out of the mouth in a scattering manner; to sputter. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]

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