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SPATTER

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of splashing a (liquid) substance on a surface

Synonyms:

spatter; spattering; splash; splashing; splattering

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("spatter" is a kind of...):

painting (the act of applying paint to a surface)

Derivation:

spatter (dash a liquid upon or against)

spatter (spot, splash, or soil)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The noise of something spattering or sputtering explosively

Example:

he heard a spatter of gunfire

Synonyms:

spatter; spattering; splatter; splattering; splutter; sputter; sputtering

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Hypernyms ("spatter" is a kind of...):

noise (sound of any kind (especially unintelligible or dissonant sound))

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Dash a liquid upon or against

Example:

The mother splashed the baby's face with water

Synonyms:

plash; spatter; splash; splatter; splosh; swash

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "spatter" is one way to...):

disperse; dot; dust; scatter; sprinkle (distribute loosely)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "spatter"):

puddle (make a puddle by splashing water)

slosh; slosh around; slush; slush around (spill or splash copiously or clumsily)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody with something
Somebody ----s something with something

Derivation:

spatter; spattering (the act of splashing a (liquid) substance on a surface)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Spot, splash, or soil

Example:

The baby spattered the bib with food

Synonyms:

bespatter; spatter

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "spatter" is one way to...):

blob; blot; fleck; spot (make a spot or mark onto)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

They spatter the bread with melted butter

Derivation:

spatter (the act of splashing a (liquid) substance on a surface)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Rain gently

Example:

It has only sprinkled, but the roads are slick

Synonyms:

patter; pitter-patter; spatter; spit; sprinkle

Classified under:

Verbs of raining, snowing, thawing, thundering

Hypernyms (to "spatter" is one way to...):

rain; rain down (precipitate as rain)

Sentence frame:

It is ----ing

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