spatter
spatter is a 7-letter English word with 9 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- transitive verb. 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.
- transitive verb. To distribute by sprinkling; to sprinkle around; as, to spatter blood.
- transitive verb. Fig.: To injure by aspersion; to defame; to soil; also, to throw out in a defamatory manner.
- intransitive verb. To throw something out of the mouth in a scattering manner; to sputter.
- noun. the act of splashing a (liquid) substance on a surface
- noun. the noise of something spattering or sputtering explosively
"he heard a spatter of gunfire"
- verb. dash a liquid upon or against
"The mother splashed the baby's face with water"
- verb. spot, splash, or soil
"The baby spattered the bib with food"
- verb. rain gently
"It has only sprinkled, but the roads are slick"
Synonyms
spattering, splash, splashing, splattering, splatter, splutter, sputter, sputtering, plash, splosh, swash, bespatter, patter, spit, sprinkle
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in spatter:
Common word forms
spatters, spattered, spattering
Words from these letters
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