splatter
Other forms: splattered; splattering; splatters
In horror movies, you'll see a lot of blood splattering on walls. Ick. To splatter is to splash liquid. A splatter is also the spot the liquid makes.
When you spill some liquid on the ground, the sound it makes is splat. Splash a lot of it, and you have a splatter — drops of the liquid across a large area. If you are frying meat in a hot pan, the grease will splatter across the stove and counter near it. In the figurative use, gossip about a celebrity's mishaps is often splattered throughout a gossip magazine like spilled milk on a floor.
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dash a liquid upon or against
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cause or allow (a liquid substance) to run or flow from a container
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a small quantity of something moist or liquid“a splatter of mud”
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type of:
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small indefinite amount, small indefinite quantity
an indefinite quantity that is below average size or magnitude
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small indefinite amount, small indefinite quantity
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the noise of something spattering or sputtering explosively
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synonyms:
spatter, spattering, splattering, splutter, sputter, sputtering
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type of:
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noise
sound of any kind (especially unintelligible or dissonant sound)
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noise
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Vocabulary lists containing splatter
Fred is your average, lovable dog who looks like his favorite hero, Duke, on the crime-fighting hit show Dog Squad. When Duke needs a stand-in, Fred fills in for him and discovers that Dog Squad action doesn't always stop on the screen.
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When their father goes off on a cattle drive, a family survives with a little help from a beloved pet dog. Learn these words from the classic novel by Fred Gipson.
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