Spattered

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  spattered
       adj 1: covered patchily; often used in combination; "waves dabbled
              with moonlight"; "a blood-spattered room"; "gardens
              splashed with color"; "kitchen walls splattered with
              grease" [syn: {dabbled}, {splashed}, {splashy}, {splattered}]
       2: spattered or spotted with dirt or filth; often used in
          combination; "dingy bespattered walls"; "a
          grease-spattered floor"; "a besplashed coach";
          "mud-splashed trouser legs" [syn: {bespattered}, {besplashed},
           {splashed}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  24 Moby Thesaurus words for "spattered":
     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