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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: the noise of something spattering or sputtering explosively; "he heard a spatter of gunfire" [syn: spatter, spattering, splatter, splattering, sputter, splutter, sputtering]
2: a small quantity of something moist or liquid; "a dab of paint"; "a splatter of mud"; "just a splash of whiskey" [syn: dab, splash, splatter] v
1: cause or allow (a liquid substance) to run or flow from a container; "spill the milk"; "splatter water" [syn: spill, slop, splatter]
2: dash a liquid upon or against; "The mother splashed the baby's face with water" [syn: spatter, splatter, plash, splash, splosh, swash]

Merriam Webster's

I. verb Etymology: probably blend of splash and spatter Date: 1785 transitive verb spatter intransitive verb to scatter or fall in or as if in drops II. noun Date: 1819 spatter, splash III. adjective Date: 1980 characterized by extreme or excessive gore or violence <a splatter movie>

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v. & n. --v.tr. & intr. 1 splash esp. with a continuous noisy action. 2 US spatter. --n. a noisy splashing sound. Etymology: imit.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(splatters, splattering, splattered) If a thick wet substance splatters on something or is splattered on it, it drops or is thrown over it. The rain splattered against the french windows... 'Sorry Edward,' I said, splattering the cloth with jam. ...a mud-splattered white shirt. = spatter VERB: V adv/prep, V n, V-ed

Moby Thesaurus

Scotch mist, asperge, beat, beat a ruffle, beat a tattoo, bedabble, bedew, bespatter, bespeckle, bespot, besprinkle, blood rain, bloodstain, blot, blotch, blur, brand, bread, crumb, dab, dabble, damp, dampen, dash, daub, dew, dot, douche, douse, dredge, drizzle, drum, dust, evening mist, eyesore, fall, fleck, flick, flour, flurry, flutter, flyspeck, foam, freckle, froth, go pitapat, gout of rain, hose, hose down, humect, humectate, humidify, irrigate, macula, maculate, maculation, macule, mark, mist, misty rain, mizzle, moisten, moisture, paddle, palpitate, patch, patter, pepper, pitter-patter, plash, pound, powder, precipitation, pulsate, rain, raindrop, rainfall, rainwater, roll, ruffle, sheet of rain, shower, slobber, slop, slosh, smear, smirch, smouch, smudge, smut, smutch, sound a tattoo, sparge, spatter, speck, speckle, spindrift, splash, splosh, splotch, splurge, splutter, sponge, spot, spray, sprinkle, spume, spurtle, sputter, stain, stigma, stud, swash, syringe, taint, tarnish, throb, thrum, thump, unfrozen hydrometeor, water, wet, wet down