Splashing

3 definitions found

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

  Splash \Splash\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Splashed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Splashing}.] [Akin to plash.]
     1. To strike and dash about, as water, mud, etc.; to plash.
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     2. To spatter water, mud, etc., upon; to wet.


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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  splashing
       n 1: the act of splashing a (liquid) substance on a surface [syn:
             {spatter}, {spattering}, {splash}, {splattering}]
       2: the act of scattering water about haphazardly [syn: {splash}]

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

  42 Moby Thesaurus words for "splashing":
     affusion, aspergation, aspersion, babbling, baptism, bath, bathing,
     bedewing, bubbling, burbling, dampening, damping, deluge, dewing,
     drowning, flooding, guggling, gurgling, hosing, hosing down,
     humidification, immersion, inundation, irrigation, lapping, laving,
     moistening, plashing, rinsing, rippling, sloshing, sparging,
     spattering, splattering, spraying, sprinkling, submersion,
     swashing, swishing, trilling, watering, wetting