Crossword clues for spattered
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Spatter \Spat"ter\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Spattered; p. pr. & vb. n. Spattering.] [From the root of spit salvia.]
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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.
Upon any occasion he is to be spattered over with the blood of his people.
--Burke. To distribute by sprinkling; to sprinkle around; as, to spatter blood.
--Pope.Fig.: To injure by aspersion; to defame; to soil; also, to throw out in a defamatory manner.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: spatter)
WordNet
adj. covered patchily; often used in combination; "waves dabbled with moonlight"; "a blood-spattered room"; "gardens splashed with color"; "kitchen walls splattered with grease" [syn: dabbled, splashed, splashy, splattered]
spattered or spotted with dirt or filth; often used in combination; "dingy bespattered walls"; "a grease-spattered floor"; "a besplashed coach"; "mud-splashed trouser legs" [syn: bespattered, besplashed, splashed]
Usage examples of "spattered".
They followed the trail of spattered dream-residue in a twisting spiral over New Crobuzon, moving slowly in a curving passage towards the sky over Spit Hearth, and on to Sheck and the south of the Tar, in Riverskin.
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.
The glass broke open and a little spray of incandescent oil spattered over the smooth skin.
It was only when she went to look at them that she discovered that behind the rosebushes the whitewash had been spattered with blood.
Close enough that I could see that there was some blood spattered on his lavender shirt.
He was in a car being driven by a green pony-man with no eyes, he was spattered with cold rain and pixie barf, and was about to be deserted by his only friend so he could continue on to an unfamiliar city with a companion right out of a Monty Python sketch.