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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

spatter
    n 1: the noise of something spattering or sputtering
         explosively; "he heard a spatter of gunfire" [syn:
         spatter, spattering, splatter, splattering,
         sputter, splutter, sputtering]
    2: the act of splashing a (liquid) substance on a surface [syn:
       spatter, spattering, splash, splashing,
       splattering]
    v 1: dash a liquid upon or against; "The mother splashed the
         baby's face with water" [syn: spatter, splatter,
         plash, splash, splosh, swash]
    2: rain gently; "It has only sprinkled, but the roads are slick"
       [syn: sprinkle, spit, spatter, patter, pitter-
       patter]
    3: spot, splash, or soil; "The baby spattered the bib with food"
       [syn: spatter, bespatter]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

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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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

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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Thesaurus Results for spatter:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

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

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