spatter

About 0.19 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To splash (someone or something) with small droplets.

   When my wet chihuahua shook himself, I was spattered with smelly water.

2. verb To cover, or lie upon (something) by having been scattered, as if by splashing.
3. verb To distribute (a liquid) by sprinkling; to sprinkle around.

   to spatter blood

4. verb To send out or disperse (something) as if in droplets.
5. verb To send out small droplets; to splash in small droplets (on or against something).

   Make sure the pieces of fish are dry before you put them into the hot oil so that it doesn’t spatter.

6. verb To injure by aspersion; to defame.
7. noun A spray or shower of droplets hitting a surface.
8. noun A spot or spots of a substance spattered on a surface.

   There was what looked like a spatter of blood on one wall.

Similar words

splattering splatter bespatter splashing splosh splash sputter sprinkle sputtering splutter

Often followed by

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Word family

spattered spattering spatters