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spattering
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Spattering
(gcide) | Spatter \Spat"ter\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Spattered; p. pr. &
vb. n. Spattering.] [From the root of spit salvia.]
1. 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.
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Upon any occasion he is to be spattered over with
the blood of his people. --Burke.
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2. To distribute by sprinkling; to sprinkle around; as, to
spatter blood. --Pope.
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3. Fig.: To injure by aspersion; to defame; to soil; also, to
throw out in a defamatory manner.
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spattering
(wn) | spattering
n 1: the noise of something spattering or sputtering
explosively; "he heard a spatter of gunfire" [syn:
spatter, spattering, splatter, splattering,
sputter, splutter, sputtering]
2: the act of splashing a (liquid) substance on a surface [syn:
spatter, spattering, splash, splashing,
splattering] |
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Bespattering
(gcide) | Bespatter \Be*spat"ter\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bespattered; p.
pr. & vb. n. Bespattering.]
1. To soil by spattering; to sprinkle, esp. with dirty water,
mud, or anything which will leave foul spots or stains.
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2. To asperse with calumny or reproach.
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Whom never faction could bespatter. --Swift.
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Spattering
(gcide) | Spatter \Spat"ter\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Spattered; p. pr. &
vb. n. Spattering.] [From the root of spit salvia.]
1. 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.
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Upon any occasion he is to be spattered over with
the blood of his people. --Burke.
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2. To distribute by sprinkling; to sprinkle around; as, to
spatter blood. --Pope.
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3. Fig.: To injure by aspersion; to defame; to soil; also, to
throw out in a defamatory manner.
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