as in splashed
to wet or soil by striking with something liquid or mushy
the house painters accidentally splattered my car with paint
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Recent Examples of splattered
On rare occasions, after a heavy bout of winter rains, the landscape in spring will burst with Mexican poppies — droplets of sunshine splattered on a canvas of golf-course green.
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Shi En Kim, AZCentral.com, 26 Mar. 2026
People used the app to generate fake videos of women being strangled or splattered with mysterious white goo, people committing crimes, and public figures wearing Nazi-like uniforms.
—Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 26 Mar. 2026
Kay is last seen with blood splattered all over her face after beating to death the present-day serial killer, Officer August Ryan (David Hornsby) — who broke into her house to thwart her investigation — with a baseball bat.
—Max Gao, HollywoodReporter, 16 Mar. 2026
And there was something investigators had never seen before -- potato fragments splattered in the bedroom.
—Marcelena Spencer, CBS News, 15 Mar. 2026
There was one moment during the movie when Newton was splattered with blood in a pattern that yielded such a great take, Radio Silence had to recreate it on her face the next production day for consistency.
—Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 13 Mar. 2026
Sauce can be seen splattered all over the walls.
—Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 28 Feb. 2026
Along the way, small pools of water pocked the road, and mud splattered up from Brown Beauty’s forelegs against her sides and against Revere’s boots and buckskin pants.
—Kostya Kennedy, Time, 16 Feb. 2026
Despite the ceaseless attention on Nancy’s house, multiple delivery drivers—flowers, pizza, Amazon—have been able to walk right up to the same front stoop that law enforcement found drops of Nancy’s blood splattered on in recent days.
—Kase Wickman, Vanity Fair, 14 Feb. 2026
Shi En Kim, AZCentral.com, 26 Mar. 2026
People used the app to generate fake videos of women being strangled or splattered with mysterious white goo, people committing crimes, and public figures wearing Nazi-like uniforms.
—Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 26 Mar. 2026
Kay is last seen with blood splattered all over her face after beating to death the present-day serial killer, Officer August Ryan (David Hornsby) — who broke into her house to thwart her investigation — with a baseball bat.
—Max Gao, HollywoodReporter, 16 Mar. 2026
And there was something investigators had never seen before -- potato fragments splattered in the bedroom.
—Marcelena Spencer, CBS News, 15 Mar. 2026
There was one moment during the movie when Newton was splattered with blood in a pattern that yielded such a great take, Radio Silence had to recreate it on her face the next production day for consistency.
—Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 13 Mar. 2026
Sauce can be seen splattered all over the walls.
—Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 28 Feb. 2026
Along the way, small pools of water pocked the road, and mud splattered up from Brown Beauty’s forelegs against her sides and against Revere’s boots and buckskin pants.
—Kostya Kennedy, Time, 16 Feb. 2026
Despite the ceaseless attention on Nancy’s house, multiple delivery drivers—flowers, pizza, Amazon—have been able to walk right up to the same front stoop that law enforcement found drops of Nancy’s blood splattered on in recent days.
—Kase Wickman, Vanity Fair, 14 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for splattered
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News reports gleefully described his six houses, his sixteen Chinese servants, his lavish parties, his $2,000 cashmere suits, and his twelve cars—one of which was a champagne-pink Cadillac with his name splashed across the side in neon lights.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
25 Mar. 2026
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But on July 7, 2019, his cables were leaked and splashed on the front page of Britain’s Mail on Sunday.—
Susan Page,
USA Today,
24 Mar. 2026
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Enterprising group member Freddy (Delaney Quinn) spots the paperback Josh was reading in the trash bin, spattered in blood.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
24 Jan. 2026
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The slow motion sequences of mom Karen Wheeler (Cara Buono) getting clawed by the demon while a horrorstruck and blood-spattered Holly watches are almost too much.—
Dan Heching,
CNN Money,
27 Nov. 2025
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“Splattered.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/splattered. Accessed 28 Mar. 2026.
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