The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bespatter \Be*spat"ter\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bespattered; p. pr. & vb. n. Bespattering.]
To soil by spattering; to sprinkle, esp. with dirty water, mud, or anything which will leave foul spots or stains.
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To asperse with calumny or reproach.
Whom never faction could bespatter.
--Swift.
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vb. (present participle of bespatter English)
Usage examples of "bespattering".
At the door he sneezed once again, this time bespattering the Japanese.
The flour bespattering Squeaker's now neglected clothes spoke eloquently of his clumsy efforts at damper making.
If, happily, complacent circumstances have lifted us to the clean paved platform out of grip of puddled clay and bespattering wheeltracks, we get our chance of coming to it.
At the instant of the dart an ulcerous jet shot from this cruel wound, and goaded by it into more than sufferable anguish, the whale now spouting thick blood, with swift fury blindly darted at the craft, bespattering them and their glorying crews all over with showers of gore, capsizing Flask's boat and marring the bows.
At length, the punch was ready, and the Dorpat student, with much bespattering of the table as he did so, ladled the liquor into tumblers, and cried: "Now, gentlemen, please!
The girl was looking at them sideways now, and the young fellow with the yellow hair, who had swallowed some wine the wrong way, was coughing violently and bespattering Madame Dufour's cherry-colored silk dress.
At the instant of the dart an ulcerous jet shot from this cruel wound, and goaded by it into more than sufferable anguish, the whale now spouting thick blood, with swift fury blindly darted at the craft, bespattering them and their glorying crews all over with showers of gore, capsizing Flask’s boat and marring the bows.
Yet that arrow pierced the leader of the flock, so that down it came in wide circles, and in a last struggle hovered for a moment over the group of men, then fell among them with a thud, the blood from its pierced breast bespattering Sir Edmund Acour and John Clavering's black hair.