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/spˈætərɪŋ/ Listen

verb

Spatter v. t. (past & past part. spattered; pres. part. spattering)

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. "Upon any occasion he is to be spattered over with the blood of his people."

To distribute by sprinkling; to sprinkle around; as, to spatter blood.

Fig.: To injure by aspersion; to defame; to soil; also, to throw out in a defamatory manner.

Spatter v. i. To throw something out of the mouth in a scattering manner; to sputter. "That mind must needs be irrecoverably depraved, which,... tasting but once of one just deed, spatters at it, and abhors the relish ever after."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Spattering" Quotes from Famous Books

... creature that he must go. He rushed to the door in the frenzy of desperation, gazed in his master's face for an instant, then flew back, took a sharp knife, which he had concealed about him, and drew it across his throat with such force, that he fell senseless near his master's feet, spattering his garments with blood. All those who witnessed this awful scene, supposed the man was dead. Dr. Church, physician of the prison, examined the wound, and said there was scarcely a possibility that he could survive, though the wind-pipe was ...

— Isaac T. Hopper • L. Maria Child

... and the fear was amply fulfilled—not the most distant glimpse of Rose was forthcoming. Instead, at a crossing, Ella Carey, in her Aunt Tyrrel's carriage, whirled by the pedestrian and administered a slight spattering of mud to her dress. "It ought to have been the other way," said Annie bitterly to herself, while she stood still to wipe the sleeve of her jacket. Yet she knew very well all the time that Ella's offence had been quite ...

— A Houseful of Girls • Sarah Tytler