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English

Verb

spattering

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 spattering
n 1: the noise of something spattering or sputtering explosively;
"he heard a spatter of gunfire" [syn: spatter, splatter,
splattering, sputter, splutter, sputtering]
2: the act of splashing a (liquid) substance on a surface [syn:
spatter, splash, splashing, splattering]

Moby Dictionary
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