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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
splatter
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be spattered/splattered with blood (=covered with small spots of blood)
▪ Today the only sign of violence is the walls spattered with blood.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Frank's shirt was splattered with blood.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A passing cart rolled by splattering him with mud and Corbett quietly cursed Burnell for sending him here.
▪ Agriculture is not like defence - a matter of being privy to private information; it is splattered all over the journals.
▪ Rain splattered on the Cathedral roof.
▪ Shorr has splattered the work with white paint, and violently creased up the photo underneath.
▪ The morning I walked into the coffee house the white pillars were still splattered in blood.
▪ The raindrops, fat and rapid, splattered down.
▪ The yogurt drooled down her thighs, splattered on the floor in a pair of thick drops.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Splatter

Splatter \Splat"ter\, v. i. & t. To spatter; to splash.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
splatter

1784 (but earlier in splatterdash (1772), variant of spatterdash); perhaps a blend of spatter and splash.

Wiktionary
splatter

n. 1 An uneven shape or mess created by something dispersing on impact. 2 (context attributive English) A genre of gory horror. vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To splash; to scatter; to land or strike in an uneven, distributed mess. 2 (context transitive English) To cause (something) to splatter. 3 (context transitive English) To spatter (something or somebody).

WordNet
splatter
  1. n. the noise of something spattering or sputtering explosively; "he heard a spatter of gunfire" [syn: spatter, spattering, splattering, sputter, splutter, sputtering]

  2. a small quantity of something moist or soft; "a dab of paint"; "a splatter of mud" [syn: dab, splash]

  3. v. cause or allow (a liquid substance) to run or flow from a container; "spill the milk"; "splatter water" [syn: spill, slop]

  4. dash a liquid upon or against; "The mother splashed the baby's face with water" [syn: spatter, plash, splash, splosh, swash]

Wikipedia
Splatter

Splatter may refer to:

  • Blood splatter
  • Spectral splatter, radio electronics and acoustics
  • Splatter cone, a type of volcano
  • Splatter guard
  • Splatter painting
Splatter (web series)

Splatter is a 2009 web series directed by Joe Dante produced by Roger Corman and starring Corey Feldman. It was created for Netflix.

The show aired over 3 episodes: 29 October, 6 November and 13 November.

Usage examples of "splatter".

Marilee said defensively, hunching her shoulders as she stirred with much more aggression than necessary, making a few splatters, while Axel choked dramatically.

Sam and Crick, who were on their hands and knees studying splatter like engineers designing a bridge.

The manager and his unseen pal Doobie did not rush out to ask me if I was all right, and in fact did not so much as poke their noses out of the back room to ascertain if the window was shattered and the floor splattered with blood from my mangled corpse.

Blood dripped continually through his fingers, splattering on the steps.

Would it come splattering up out of him, some ghastly lung-vomit, ejected, left drooped over the side of the gascraft like some pale blue mass of seaweed, leaving him to gasp and choke and die?

He came out of his stance with a splattering of dust and fewmets, stopped, then charged again.

Johnny, watching as he howked up some phlegm and splattered it onto the concrete of what was the old terraced floor of the east stand.

Sunshine Junkanoo Band, named after the imported Bahamian music that influenced their intricate horns and percussion until their brilliance was unfairly splattered with the embarrassing stain of disco.

Belle leapt clear and tracked-on spitting, reflexively sending her first greeting smashing into the gunhand of the opponent and splattering it, then climbing for the heart and the head--and the Mafioso went down gurgling with three Parabellum hi-shock expanders displacing several cubic inches of vital matter.

Now more horsemen began to ride in, mud splattering on the gathering staff, and Taylor moved close, water running off his hat.

Toq said, throwing his racht back onto his plate, splattering grapok sauce all over the table.

Looking around, he surveyed the damage to his house as Kasumi rode around the corner, splattered in blood.

The walls had holes and raw unsanded white spackle and sheetrock mud splattered at random, as if someone had made a piss poor attempt at fixing them.

Among the thousands of children watching were two young vaisya girls, their packets of rangoli and pitchkarees still clutched in their hands, faces and clothes splattered and stained with a rainbow of hues.

He goes at his task with an almost alarming linguistic energy, a Burgessy splatter of vocabulary, and a ferocious love of everything comic and grotesque.