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Splash in drops
Answer for the clue "Splash in drops ", 7 letters:
spatter
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Word definitions for spatter in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1570s (implied in spattering ), possibly a frequentative verb from the stem of Dutch or Low German spatten "to spout, burst," of imitative origin. Related: Spattered . As a noun from 1797.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Spatter \Spat"ter\, v. i. To throw something out of the mouth in a scattering manner; to sputter. That mind must needs be irrecoverably depraved, which, . . . tasting but once of one just deed, spatters at it, and abhors the relish ever after. --Milton.
Usage examples of spatter.
Tatooine and Hoth and Bespin through his mind, he strode into the midst of the fight, the blue-white blade spattering bolts of enemy fire and shattering across the weapons themselves.
The people gave back as the body came hurtling down, to smash on the marble pave, spattering blood and brains, and lie crushed in its splintered armor, like a mangled beetle.
This time when the Waynhim spoke, she heard a low spatter of sound like the phosphenes which lingered in her vision, complicating the shadows.
Andrew is a careful pourer, but Laramie spatters droplets on the hot burner and they sizzle as they evaporate.
The arm and hatchet collapsed to the floor in a sudden spatter of clear, semifluid gelatin, the remnants of spirit-flesh when the spirit was gone, ectoplasm that would swiftly evaporate.
Mud spattered everywhere as the warm wind melted snow, as feet ground moisture into grass and dirt.
He was indeed so filthy that dust and matter spattered onto the ground around him as water droplets might spray.
But the daimone caught the blade and just the touch of that hand shattered the iron blade into shards that sprayed out, caught fire, and spattered against the ground in a hissing hail of sparks.
Then, as the first fat raindrops spattered the pavement, he began to inch toward her.
The little man was there: a soggy spectacle on a pale and spattered horse.
He woke to the Sergeant, bowlegged Corse: the man dragged drearily by on a spattered horse, raised disgusted eyes.
A shell hit a treetop across the road and splinters flickered through the grove and spattered against the brick wall.
And these, his comrades, these dirty-faced roughnecks, these dangerous brutalized amoral little creatures with pinched faces and ragged trousers, spattered with snot and rheum and urban dirt, girls in stained shifts and boys with jackets too big, grabbed cobblestones from the earth and pelted me where I lay in the darkness of a decaying threshold.
The wood beneath it was spattered with the dirty white and grey of birdshit.
It spewed in a white-hot torrent over the lip of the waiting container and spattered the crew like a siege engine.