plash

About 0.04 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A small pool of standing water; a marshy pond; also, a puddle; marshy land; mire.
2. noun A sound made by something hitting the surface of water or some other liquid, or by water or some other liquid hitting something; also, an act causing this sound; a splash.
3. noun A heavy fall of rain; a downpour.
4. noun A splash of light on a surface.
5. verb To hit (someone or something) with water or some other liquid, causing a splashing sound; to splash. To splash or sprinkle (a surface, such as a wall) with a liquid colouring matter.

   to plash a wall in imitation of granite

6. verb To hit (someone or something) with water or some other liquid, causing a splashing sound; to splash. To splash or sprinkle (a surface, such as a wall) with a liquid colouring matter.

   to plash a wall in imitation of granite

7. verb To splash or sprinkle (a surface, such as a wall) with a liquid colouring matter.

   to plash a wall in imitation of granite

8. verb To agitate or plunge into (water or some other liquid), causing it to splash.

Similar words

swash spatter splatter splosh splash pleach puddle plesh spuddle mudpuddle

Often followed by

of and in into mill on as upon across

Word family

plashed plashes plashing