spatter
Other forms: spattered; spattering; spatters
If you spatter something, you splash it with tiny drops of a liquid, like the way the artist Jackson Pollock dripped and spattered paint across a large canvas.
You can spatter sauce across your stretched-out pizza dough, and you can also listen to rain spatter against the windows during a storm. Spatter can describe the splashing of a substance, like paint on a piece of wood, or the sound something makes, like the spatter of pebbles against the side of the shed. Experts believe spatter comes from the imitative Low German verb spatten, "to spout or burst."
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dash a liquid upon or against
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spot, splash, or soil
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rain gently
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the act of splashing a (liquid) substance on a surfacesynonyms: spattering, splash, splashing, splatteringtype of:paintingthe act of applying paint to a surface
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the noise of something spattering or sputtering explosivelysynonyms: spattering, splatter, splattering, splutter, sputter, sputteringtype of:noisesound of any kind (especially unintelligible or dissonant sound)
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