'Spattering' definitions:
Definition of 'spattering'
(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]
Definition of 'Spattering'
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]
Synonyms of 'spattering'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- affusion,
- aspergation,
- aspersion,
- attenuation,
- baptism,
- bath,
- bathing,
- beating,
- bedewing,
- broadcast,
- broadcasting,
- circumfusion,
- clicking,
- dampening,
- damping,
- deluge,
- dewing,
- diffraction,
- diffusion,
- dilution,
- dispensation,
- dispersal,
- dispersion,
- dissemination,
- dissipation,
- distribution,
- divergence,
- drowning,
- drumming,
- evaporation,
- expansion,
- few,
- flooding,
- fluttering,
- fragmentation,
- handful,
- hosing,
- hosing down,
- humidification,
- immersion,
- inundation,
- irrigation,
- laving,
- moistening,
- palpitant,
- peppering,
- pounding,
- propagation,
- publication,
- radiation,
- rinsing,
- scattering,
- scatterment,
- shotgun pattern,
- smatter,
- smattering,
- sowing,
- sparging,
- spatter,
- splashing,
- splattering,
- splay,
- spluttering,
- spraying,
- spread,
- spreading,
- sprinkling,
- sputtering,
- staccato,
- strewing,
- submersion,
- swashing,
- throbbing,
- thrumming,
- thumping,
- ticking,
- volatilization,
- watering,
- wetting