Another word for spatter
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Verb
To hurl or scatter liquid upon
- To drink hastily. Often used with down :
- To add an enlivening or altering element to:
- To splash; bespatter:
- To walk or splash through slush or mud
- To serve unappetizingly or clumsily; dish out:
- To spill or splash
- To splash or move clumsily through water, mud, etc.
- To spill or splash (a liquid) copiously or clumsily:
- To splash about
- To dash or scatter a liquid substance, mud, etc. on, so as to wet or soil
- To cause (something) to scatter fluid in flying masses:
- To apply patches or spots of a contrasting, usually bright, color to:
- To apply a spray to (a surface); hit with a spray.
- To be shot out as a spray
- To shoot out a spray
- To swagger.
- To splash (a liquid), as in a container
- To dash, strike, wash, etc. with a splashing sound; splash
See also:To mark or soil with spots
- To cover or mark with blotches
- To mark or become marked with blotches.
- To cause (a liquid) to fall on a surface or object.
- To spatter (a surface or object), especially to soil with splashes of liquid.
- To cause (something) to splatter.
- To mark with splotches or a splotch.
- To mark or soil, or be marked or soiled, with a splotch or splotches
- (Sports) To act as a spotter for (a gymnast, for example).
- (Informal) To lend:
- To become marked with spots:
See also:To contaminate the reputation of
- To smear.
- To smear over; bedaub; soil
- To stain; sully:
- To bring dishonor to; sully
- To make dirty; soil
- To hurt or damage by slander, libel, etc.
- To become dark or black:
- To coat (fish or meat, for example) with pepper and other spices and then quickly sear in a very hot skillet, thereby producing meat that is black on the outside but tender on the inside.
- To cover or obscure with clouds:
- To show sorrow, worry, or anger:
- To become dark, obscure, or less transparent:
- (Archaic) To blacken
- To disparage; belittle:
- To attack the character or reputation of; speak ill of; defame:
- To become soiled.
- To make or become dirty; soil; tarnish; stain
- To stain or tarnish with dishonor.
- To apply (a ) to, so as to leave a coating, mark, etc.
- To spread or daub (a surface, for example) with a sticky, greasy, or dirty substance.
- To cover, daub, or soil with something greasy, sticky, or dirty
- To become smudged or blurred:
- To make dirty, especially in one small area:
- To fill (an orchard or an inhabited area) with dense smoke from a smudge pot in order to prevent damage from frost or to repel insects.
- To be or become blackened or smudged.
- To mark or affect with smut
- To affect (a plant) with smut fungus.
- To smirch or stain
- Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster's Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
- To feed, as cattle or horses, in the barn or an enclosure, with fresh grass or green food cut for them, instead of sending them out to pasture; hence (such food having the effect of purging them), to purge by feeding on green food.
- To change the appearance of (wood, glass, etc.) by applying a dye, pigment, etc.
- To change the color of (a piece of wood, for example) by applying a stain.
- To discolor, soil, or spot:
- To defile; taint:
- (Obs.) To become sullied
- To soil, stain, tarnish, or besmirch, now esp. by disgracing
- To affect or associate with something undesirable or reprehensible:
- (Obs.) To sully or stain
- To expose to an infectious agent, toxin, or undesirable substance:
- To dull the luster of; discolor, especially by exposure to air or dirt:
- To lose luster; become discolored:
- To dull the luster of or discolor the surface of (a metal) as by exposure to air
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Another word for spatter
Verb
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- To produce a sound or sight associated with this effect.
- To cause (something) to scatter fluid in flying masses:
- To dash or scatter a liquid substance, mud, etc. on, so as to wet or soil
- To become marked with spots:
- To remove (individual spots, marks, etc.) as in dry cleaning
- To soil with spots:
- To urinate.
- To make or become wet
- To become wet.
- To become dirty, stained, or tarnished.
- Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster's Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
- To feed, as cattle or horses, in the barn or an enclosure, with fresh grass or green food cut for them, instead of sending them out to pasture; hence (such food having the effect of purging them), to purge by feeding on green food.
- To swagger.
- To splash (a liquid), as in a container
- To dash, strike, wash, etc. with a splashing sound; splash
- (Intransitive) To drip in fine drops, sometimes sporadically.
- To scatter (water, sand, etc.) in drops or particles
- To cause (a substance) to fall in fine drops (for a liquid substance) or small pieces (for a solid substance).
- To distribute loosely; strew:
- To cause to separate and go in different directions:
- (Baseball) To allow (hits or walks) in small numbers over several innings. Used of a pitcher.
- To change the appearance of (wood, glass, etc.) by applying a dye, pigment, etc.
- To change the color of (a piece of wood, for example) by applying a stain.
- To discolor, soil, or spot:
- To add an enlivening or altering element to:
- To splash; bespatter:
- To drink hastily. Often used with down :
- To make or form with dots
- To cover with or as if with dots:
- To cover with or as with dots; appear as dotlike parts in
- To mark with specks.
- To mark with speckles.
- To apply pebble dash to a wall.
- To make wet with or as if with drops of dew
- To wet with or as if with dew.
- To throw or cause to fall in a shower:
- To wash oneself in a shower.
- To throw or cause small things or pieces to fall over:
- To adorn or cause to sparkle by covering with or as if with spangles:
- To fix spangles to; to adorn with small, brilliant bodies.
- To cover or decorate with spangles or other bright objects
- To form seeds; specif., to become ripe and produce seeds
- To inject, fill, or scatter with seeds (see seed; esp., to sprinkle particles of dry ice, silver iodide, etc. into (clouds) in an attempt to induce rainfall
- To plant (a crop, for example) as seeds in soil.
- (Basketball) To bounce the ball on the floor with one hand at a time, enabling the player to move with it;
- To hit (a baseball, for example) so that it bounces slowly and low to the ground.
- (Sports) To move a ball or puck by repeated light bounces or kicks, as in basketball or soccer.
- To direct a spray onto; treat with or subject to a spray
- To disperse (a liquid, for example) in a mass or jet of droplets, particles, or small pieces.
- To apply a spray to (a surface); hit with a spray.
- To mark or mottle with spots.
- To cover or become covered with spots, as of a different color
- To mark or become marked with mottling or spots.
- To mark with blotches, streaks, and spots of different colors or shades
- To lie scattered over or about:
- To cover over (a surface) with something; strew
- To strew (a surface) with things so as to cover it:
- To mark or set with stars as a decoration
- To mark with one or more stars as a grade of quality
- To perform as a star, as in a theatrical production
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