Dictionary Entry
sprinkle
sprinkle is a 8-letter English word with 14 senses as intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To scatter in small drops or particles, as water, seed, etc. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
8 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 17 · 14 senses
Definitions
- 1intransitive verb
To scatter in small drops or particles, as water, seed, etc.
- 2intransitive verb
To scatter on; to disperse something over in small drops or particles; to besprinkle; as, to sprinkle the earth with water; to sprinkle a floor with sand.
- 3intransitive verb
To baptize by the application of a few drops, or a small quantity, of water; hence, to cleanse; to purify.
- 4intransitive verb
To scatter a liquid, or any fine substance, so that it may fall in particles.
- 5intransitive verb
To rain moderately, or with scattered drops falling now and then; as, it sprinkles.
- 6intransitive verb
To fly or be scattered in small drops or particles.
- 7noun
A small quantity scattered, or sparsely distributed; a sprinkling.
- 8noun
A utensil for sprinkling; a sprinkler.
- 9noun
the act of sprinkling or splashing water
"baptized with a sprinkling of holy water"
"a sparge of warm water over the malt"
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- 10noun
a light shower that falls in some locations and not others nearby
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- 11verb
scatter with liquid; wet lightly
"Sprinkle the lawn"
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- 12verb
cause (a liquid) to spatter about, especially with force
"She splashed the water around her"
- 13verb
distribute loosely
"He scattered gun powder under the wagon"
- 14verb
rain gently
"It has only sprinkled, but the roads are slick"
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