Definition of spatter
- blood spattering everywhere
- his coat was spattered with mud
- spatter water
- spattered my reputation
The dog jumped in the pool and spattered us with water.
His clothes were spattered with paint.
When you cook bacon, the grease spatters everywhere.
He showed me how to use the paintbrush so the paint wouldn't spatter.
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There were grease spatters all over the wall.
The floor was covered with spatters of paint.
There was a lot of paint spatter on the floor.
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ace, bit, crumb, dab, dram, driblet, glimmer, hint, lick, little, mite, nip, ounce, particle, peanuts, ray, scintilla, scruple, shade, shadow, shred, smack, smidgen (also smidgeon), snap, spark, speck, splash, spot, sprinkling, strain, streak, suspicion, tad, touch, trace;
abundance, barrel, boatload, bucket, bundle, bushel, deal, fistful, gobs, heaps, loads, lot, mass, mess, mountain, much, oodles, passel, peck, pile, plenty, potful, profusion, quantity, raft, reams, scads, stack, wad, wealth;
hoot, iota, jot, minim, minimum, modicum, semblance, syllable, tittle, vestige, whit;
atom, dot, fleck, flyspeck, grain, granule, molecule, morsel, mote, nubbin, patch, scrap;
drop in the bucket;
: to cause drops of a liquid to be thrown forcefully in different directions
: a mark made when something wet hits a surface
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