spatter[verb]Synonyms: splash, douse, plash, slop, slosh, splatter, splosh, splurge, spurtle, swash, spot, bespatter, bespot, malign, asperse, befoul, blacken, defame, denigrate, slur, smear, traduce, sputter, spit, splutter
[noun]Synonyms: few, handful, scattering, smatch, smatter, smattering, spattering, sprinkling
Related Words: sparge [TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲
spat‧ter /ˈspætə $ -ər/
verb [intransitive and transitive][
Date: 1500-1600;
Origin: Perhaps from Dutch spatten 'to burst, flow out strongly']
if a liquid spatters, or if something spatters it, drops of it fall or are thrown all over a surface
Synonym : splatterspatter somebody/something with something The walls were spattered with blood.spatter something on/over etc something a sweatshirt with paint spattered over itspatter on/across/over etc The first drops of rain spattered on the stones.—spatter noun [countable] [TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲