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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
spattered
    adj 1: covered with bright patches (often used in combination);
           "waves dabbled with moonlight"; "a blood-spattered room";
           "gardens splashed with color"; "kitchen walls splattered
           with grease" [syn: dabbled, spattered, splashed,
           splattered]

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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Thesaurus Results for Spattered:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
bespeckled, blotched, blotchy, dotted, dusted, freckle-faced, freckled, freckly, macular, maculate, maculated, peppered, powdered, specked, speckled, speckly, splashed, splattered, splotched, splotchy, spotted, spotty, sprinkled, studded
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