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English

Pronunciation

:Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-ætə(r)|-ætə(r)

Verb

To splash with small droplets.
:When my chihuahua shook his wet body, I was spattered with smelly water.

Translations

Finnish: pirskottaa
French: asperger

Russian: обрызгивать

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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Spatter \Spat"ter\, v. i.
To throw something out of the mouth in a scattering manner;
to sputter.
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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.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English 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.
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Upon any occasion he is to be spattered over with
the blood of his people. --Burke.
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2. To distribute by sprinkling; to sprinkle around; as, to
spatter blood. --Pope.
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3. Fig.: To injure by aspersion; to defame; to soil; also, to
throw out in a defamatory manner.
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WordNet spatter
n 1: the noise of something spattering or sputtering explosively;
"he heard a spatter of gunfire" [syn: spattering, splatter,
splattering, sputter, splutter, sputtering]
2: the act of splashing a (liquid) substance on a surface [syn:
spattering, splash, splashing, splattering]
v 1: dash a liquid upon or against; "The mother splashed the
baby's face with water" [syn: splatter, plash, splash,
splosh, swash]
2: rain gently; "It has only sprinkled, but the roads are
slick" [syn: sprinkle, spit, patter, pitter-patter]
3: spot, splash, or soil; "The baby spattered the bib with
food" [syn: bespatter]

Moby Dictionary
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