'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]
Synonyms of 'spatter'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- asperge,
- barrage,
- beat,
- beating,
- bedabble,
- bedaub,
- bedew,
- bespatter,
- bespeckle,
- bespot,
- besprinkle,
- bloodstain,
- blot,
- blotch,
- blur,
- brand,
- bread,
- crumb,
- dab,
- dabble,
- damp,
- dampen,
- dash,
- daub,
- dew,
- dot,
- douche,
- dredge,
- drizzle,
- drum,
- drum music,
- drumbeat,
- drumfire,
- drumming,
- dust,
- eyesore,
- fall,
- few,
- fleck,
- flick,
- flour,
- flutter,
- flyspeck,
- foam,
- freckle,
- froth,
- handful,
- hose,
- hose down,
- humect,
- humectate,
- humidify,
- irrigate,
- macula,
- maculate,
- maculation,
- macule,
- mark,
- mizzle,
- moisten,
- paddle,
- palpitation,
- paradiddle,
- patch,
- patter,
- pelt,
- pepper,
- pitapat,
- pitter-patter,
- plash,
- pound,
- pounding,
- pour,
- pour with rain,
- powder,
- precipitate,
- pulsation,
- rain,
- rain tadpoles,
- rat-a-tat,
- rat-tat,
- rat-tat-tat,
- rataplan,
- rattattoo,
- roll,
- rub-a-dub,
- ruff,
- ruffle,
- scattering,
- shower,
- shower down,
- slobber,
- slop,
- slosh,
- smatter,
- smattering,
- smear,
- smirch,
- smouch,
- smudge,
- smut,
- smutch,
- sparge,
- spattering,
- speck,
- speckle,
- spindrift,
- spit,
- splash,
- splatter,
- splotch,
- splutter,
- sponge,
- spot,
- spray,
- sprinkle,
- sprinkling,
- spume,
- sputter,
- staccato,
- stain,
- stigma,
- stream,
- stud,
- swash,
- syringe,
- taint,
- tarnish,
- tat-tat,
- tattoo,
- throb,
- throbbing,
- thrum,
- thumping,
- tom-tom,
- water,
- weep,
- wet,
- wet down