Crossword clues for spattering
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
n. Something spattered. vb. (present participle of spatter English)
WordNet
n. the noise of something spattering or sputtering explosively; "he heard a spatter of gunfire" [syn: spatter, splatter, splattering, sputter, splutter, sputtering]
the act of splashing a (liquid) substance on a surface [syn: spatter, splash, splashing, splattering]
Usage examples of "spattering".
The panicking dextrier, in the host of the young child, tried to obey, and sent flaming gobbets of gas spinning in a tight spiral, spattering the pair of handlingers beside it in the air.
He staggered and barely caught himself, hand grasping at dirt, claws shirking out to scrape earth and send it spattering to the ground.
Buford could hear the artillery coming into place on the far side, heard the spattering of rifle fire from probing patrols.
He rode up spattering dust, jerking at the horse with unnatural motions, a square-faced man, a gentle face.
He ran forward to a boulder, ducked, looked out: dead men, ten, fifteen, lumps of gray blood spattering everywhere, dirty white skin, a claw-like hand, black sightless eyes.
There were lights all down the Union line, a few horses moving, here and there a bugle, lights in the cemetery, a spattering of lights in Gettysburg.
Longstreet put glasses to his eyes, saw ghost figures stumbling in white smoke, yellow blaze of cannon, black flakes of men spattering upward into a white sky, and then the smoke was too thick and he could not see anything and it was like going blind.
There was a loud semi-liquid smack, as the nugget of cheese blew up with speed and violence, spattering the inside of the belljar with crumbs and oil.
There was a second when Isaac thought that it might be a nightmare, one of the sick dreams that afflicted the city, spewing out of his unconscious on a slick of slake-moth dung and spattering into the aether.
His head smacked against the rough concrete floor, sending blood spattering out across the dust.
A thin drool of coloured spittle from the berries streams out after it, spattering and staining the mess.
Isaac thought that it might be a nightmare, one of the sick dreams that afflicted the city, spewing out of his unconscious on a slick of slake-moth dung and spattering into the aether.
Remover of Inconvenient Obstacles knew that it was raining hard outside, the drops spattering and hissing on the pavement, coach tires spitting.
Some kind of religious group, he assumed, the fairy equivalent of the Salvation Army praying at a disaster scene, but then he heard a rumble of true thunder from high overhead and felt a spattering of rain on his face, and just at that moment the singing jumped up a key.
A stream of juice drips over metal fingers, spattering the speckled white tile floor.