spatter

(transitive)To splash (someone or something) with small droplets.

When my wet chihuahua shook himself, I was spattered with smelly water.

Đồng nghĩa: spurt

(figuratively, transitive)To cover, or lie upon (something) by having been scattered, as if by splashing.

1955, Samuel Beckett and Patrick Bowles (translators), Molloy by Samuel Beckett, in Three Novels, London: Calder, 1994, p. 128, The roof’s serrated ridge, the single chimney-stack with its four flues, stood out faintly against the sky spattered with a few dim stars.

Đồng nghĩa: strew

(transitive)To distribute (a liquid) by sprinkling; to sprinkle around.

to spatter blood

Đồng nghĩa: asperge, asperse, besprinkle, sprinkle

(figuratively, transitive)(transitive, figurative) To send out or disperse (something) as if in droplets.

(intransitive)To send out small droplets; to splash in small droplets (on or against something).

Make sure the pieces of fish are dry before you put them into the hot oil so that it doesn’t spatter.

(figuratively, obsolete, transitive)(obsolete, transitive, figurative) To injure by aspersion; to defame.

1647, John Hall, “A Genethliacon to the Infant Muse of his dearest Friend” in Poems, London: J. Rothwell, Let envy spatter what it can, This Embryon will prove a man.

1728, John Gay, The Beggar’s Opera, Dublin: George Risk et al., Act II, Scene 13, “Good-morrow, Gossip Joan,” p. 42, Why how now, Madam Flirt? If you thus must chatter; And are for flinging Dirt, Let’s try who best can spatter;

1770, George Saville Carey, “To a Friend” in Analects in Verse and Prose, London: P. Shatwell et al., Volume 2, p. 171, I Wrote a letter long ago, But did not like it, you must know, So rather chose to take my time, And write my own defence in rhime, Though not in your be-crabbed stile, To spatter, threaten, and revile;

Đồng nghĩa: asperse, denigrate, muddy, assassinate, asperse, backbite, badmouth, befoul, belibel, besmirch, besmear, bewray, blacken, blame, blaze, blemish, blot, blur, calumniate, calumny, chat shit, chat shite, cloud, defame, demonize, denigrate, deprave, depreciate, detract, dirty, discredit, disgrace, disparage, disrepute, diss, drag through the mud, forgab, forspeak, foul, infamize, lampoon, libel, malign, monsterize, muddy, reproach, revile, scandal, shit-talk, slag, slander, smear, smirch, spatter, spot, speak ill of, stab, stain, sully, talk shit, talk shite, talk trash, tarnish, torch, traduce, trash-talk, unflatter, vilify, vilipend, villainize, wrong

A spray or shower of droplets hitting a surface.

1763, Richard Bentley, Patriotism, a Mock-Heroic, London: M. Hinxman, Canto 5, pp. 65-66, As a rough Water-Dog, New-England’s Breed, Fresh plaister’d from some Pond with Mud and Weed, Round from his Fleece the dirty Puddle shakes Rejoicing in the Spatter that he makes:

A spot or spots of a substance spattered on a surface.

There was what looked like a spatter of blood on one wall.

The sound of droplets hitting a surface.

(figuratively)A burst or series of sounds resembling the sound of droplets hitting a surface.

(figuratively)A collection of objects scattered like droplets splashed onto a surface.

1988, Don DeLillo, Libra, New York: Viking, Part 2, “12 August,” p. 270, The attendant had a droopy lower lip, a rust-tone complexion with a spatter of freckles across the cheekbones […]