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Sprinkle   /sprˈɪŋkəl/   Listen
Sprinkle

verb
(past & past part. sprinkled; pres. part. sprinkling)
1.
Distribute loosely.  Synonyms: disperse, dot, dust, scatter.
2.
Cause (a liquid) to spatter about, especially with force.  Synonyms: splash, splosh.
3.
Rain gently.  Synonyms: patter, pitter-patter, spatter, spit.
4.
Scatter with liquid; wet lightly.  Synonyms: besprinkle, sparge.
noun
1.
A light shower that falls in some locations and not others nearby.  Synonyms: scattering, sprinkling.
2.
The act of sprinkling or splashing water.  Synonyms: sparge, sprinkling.  "A sparge of warm water over the malt"



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"Sprinkle" Quotes from Famous Books



... cup the poisoned brewage of doubt. Already things were drifting toward the abyss, when the jackals suddenly emerged from the earth. A deathly and infected literature, which had no form but that of ugliness, began to sprinkle with fetid blood all the monsters ...
— Serge Panine • Georges Ohnet

... quarter-inch slices. Spread lightly with French mustard. Sprinkle with grated cheese and finely chopped olives. Brown ...
— Stevenson Memorial Cook Book • Various

... The disciples, the little sons of Tzu-hsia, can sprinkle and sweep, attend and answer, come in and go out; but what can come ...
— The Sayings Of Confucius • Confucius

... with a battle-axe herself will scar Her own wild arms, and sprinkle on the ground Blood, for Bellona's emblems of wild war, Swift-flowing ...
— The Elegies of Tibullus • Tibullus

... their custom to 'feed the spirits of the dead' for the space of one year, by going daily to places which they were accustomed to frequent while living, where they sprinkle pinole upon the ground. A Yokaia mother who has lost her babe goes every day for a year to some place where her little one played while alive, or to the spot where its body was burned, and milks her breasts into the air. This is accompanied by plaintive ...
— The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought • Alexander F. Chamberlain


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